Fault lines-geological, emotional, relational-are unseen tensions shaping both landscapes and lives. They're quiet until under pressure, when they reveal what lies beneath the surface. Some lie deep underground-tectonic seams storing energy until release. Others permeate marriages, friendships, the choices we make in unfamiliar places, or the terrain inside our own heads. We imagine stability is the natural state of things, that ground stays firm and people follow the arcs we expect. Yet rupture isn't the exception, it's the rule. What we call solid is almost always provisional. The essays in this collection explore how trust forms, falters, and reforms under pressure. Each takes place in precarious terrain: the Mojave Desert, where you can lose your sense of direction in broad daylight; the Tetons, where a rope and a partner's judgment can be the only things between you and a perilous fall; and the world's largest nuclear weapons site, where what appears orderly conceals the insidious. Each landscape reveals how fear sharpens attention, the way we cling to others when the footing grows thin, and the way we redefine safety not as the absence of risk, but as the presence of someone beside us when the way grows dangerous.
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Smith's essays, short stories, and articles have appeared in books, magazines, newspapers, andwebsites, including Chicago Story Press, The Brussels Review, and In Short: A Journal of FlashFiction. Other essays will appear this year in The Threepenny Review and Passages North. Hehas won a Westmoreland Award for fiction, and holds a master's degree in biology from theUniversity of Michigan.
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