Author Lonnie Busch has a way with words. His stories, no matter how short, have your heart pumping, your mind racing, and your emotions on high alert. Whether missing Walter in “White Bull” or laughing and cringing throughout “Over the Top” Busch finds a way to ensconce readers and fully immerse us in his plots, no matter how many pages they span.
“Push Me” is Busch’s newest collection of short stories. Embodying themes surrounding love, loss, and feeling, readers will undergo an immense range of emotions as we work our way through this compilation. Stories such as “A Stonemason on Ocracoke” which has an intriguing method of switching between husband and wife, paragraph by paragraph as they play off each other’s thoughts despite the metaphorical distance between them. To “Over the Top” which shares a story of an artist fighting their critic in what is certainly a sequence of events many artists fantasize about when bad reviews come in. Even the title story, “Push Me,” invites fantasies into reality as one man weighs his present. It is this ability by Busch to summon such strong, widely ranging emotions that makes him a master of his craft.
Each read left me yearning for more and yet looking forward to what he came up with next. Using significant concepts and themes, relatable characters and emotions, Busch’s short stories housed within “Push Me” is just another example of his extraordinary talent. Sparking thought, reflection, and deep-rooted understanding, these feisty stories are an exceptional addition to any bookshelf.
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