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Jesus Particles

Two men come to the same Appalachian ridge, eighteen years apart: a soldier home from a war over rare earth minerals, and a boy riding a BMX bike east from the cabin where his parents died after the nuclear strike. What comes for them is a militia church out of Pennsylvania, led by a weeping pastor who means to take dominion over what’s left of America.

When you untie an electric fence with your teeth, it clears your brain right up like a thunderclap.

From the prologue

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Also: Chasing Syntropy, its companion novel, and Ungoverned Spaces, a memoir.


Stories

Hitchhiking, a night on patrol, Sunday cockfights in Tumbes. Short fiction in Narrative, Witness, and The Massachusetts Review.

Haiku

Published in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest.

Music

Bub has recorded three albums: Apocalyptic Bub, Bub Among the Anglicans, and Bub Around the World.

The Tutahaco, a white World War II–era Navy tugboat, tied up at a dock
The Tutahaco, a World War II–era Navy tug. St. Thomas to Fort Lauderdale, through a storm.

Nate Haken was born in Nigeria and raised in Switzerland, Mexico, and Cameroon. He has been a newspaper reporter in Illinois, a television producer in Washington, and a cook in the Caribbean. More →