Matt Rushing invites readers into quiet neighborhoods and garages, empty highways, corporate offices and city parks. His stories begin with the familiar-a road trip, heartbreak, retirement-and spiral into the unbearable. With haunting and lyrical prose, Rushing explores the spaces where dread lives: love, dreams, a neighborhood pond, your flower bed. Unsettling, intimate and relentless, The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a chilling collection about the terrors we must endure.
