Thomas Allbaugh

Sacred Shadows and Latent Light

Fiction

Foreword

“The challenge for the writer of fiction is to make our current and perhaps momentary absurdities not into polemics, stereotypes, or social media put-downs but instead to somehow give them human faces and the right nuance. Dustin Lovell has done this. Among the students, professors, and administrators he imagines here, I detect the echoes of a Dostoyevsky novel. Sacred Shadows and Latent Light makes for a rich, compelling work of contemporary fiction.”