Rest in Peace

Three humorous winning stories from the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest: €œRest in Peace€ (1996), a boy aspiring to be a preacher practices funeral sermons by burying his drunken father; €œEverybody€s Business€ (1999), a small-town jock futilely tries to score with the new girl at school; and €œBurning Bridges€ (2002), a rural Virginia woman, trying to set Yankees straight about the real Thanksgiving, causes problems in her daughter€s elementary school, gets herself arrested, and alienates her mother-in-law.