Burning Mount Diablo by Wendell Mayo

Fiction

31 pages

8.5” x 5.5” single signature with hand stitched binding

Published February 2022

Tense, moody, and beautifully observed, the three short stories that comprise Wendell Mayo’s Burning Mount Diablo explore the inner lives of characters in the process of losing it all. An aduterer watches as wildfire grows closer to his home. An alcoholic artist bottoms out. A father who lost a son struggles to hold on to his wife. What’s left at the end of each story— really, what powers each of Mayo’s sentences— is an indelible soul and irrepressible humanity.

Note: All profits from this title will be donated to the Humane Ohio Clinic as a way to honor the legacy of Wendell Mayo who passed away in 2019. Learn more at humaneohio.org.