http://www.rakemag.com/tags/illness The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.rakemag.com/blogs/cracking-spine/2008/08/chris-adrian039s-new-collection-short-stories <!--paging_filter-->These angels are useless. The heavenly agents that populate Chris Adrian's new story collection, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angel-Stories-Chris-Adrian/dp/0374289905" target="_blank">A Better Angel</a>, </i>sit idly by their hapless wards, disappointed and impotent. Their existence, it seems, is incidental, and at times they are nothing more than a higher order of fuck-ups. Which somehow makes these angels strikingly believable. <br /><p><a href="http://www.rakemag.com/blogs/cracking-spine/2008/08/chris-adrian039s-new-collection-short-stories">read more</a></p> http://www.rakemag.com/blogs/cracking-spine/2008/08/chris-adrian039s-new-collection-short-stories#comments Chris Adrian death Hospitals illness Review Short Story Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:36:44 -0500 Max Ross 9711 at http://www.rakemag.com http://www.rakemag.com/fiction-humor/fiction/family-arrangements <!--paging_filter--><p><b>The neat, large farmhouse was different</b> from what he remembered. Even though he had been back for a few months already, it still took him by surprise some mornings: the wide plank, light wood floors, butcher block countertops in the kitchen, cool tones on the walls, books everywhere, fresh coffee brewed by the time he stumbled in from his bedroom. It was a bright house. Clean everywhere, new towels hanging in the bathrooms, even his sheets coming up crisp and changed every few days, his laundry hung in the closet, folded into the dresser. </p><p><a href="http://www.rakemag.com/fiction-humor/fiction/family-arrangements">read more</a></p> http://www.rakemag.com/fiction-humor/fiction/family-arrangements#comments atonement cancer family illness jail relationships remorse Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:48:57 -0600 kristin harper 7374 at http://www.rakemag.com