The Big Sandy

The Big Sandy is a Joycean-like sojourn concerning the perpetual vicissitudes of life as encountered by Flammidy ‘Flexxy’ O’Shea and Jody ‘Pullin’Up’ Stakes while they await deliverance from their (Michael) Dodge Fury, after having landed topsy-turvy in the square center of a large, Sandhills-of-Nebraska blow out.

R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, working trees throughout the United States as well as in, during the late 1960’s, Guyana, South America. In 1972 he began teaching Middle School English in Chadron, Nebraska, and is currently a professor of English at Chadron State College. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Kansas Quarterly, The Prairie Schooner,Melville Extracts and in The Yellow Nib.