The Continental Divide: Stories

Named one of Literary Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025LONGLISTED, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection (2026)FINALIST, Society of Midland Authors Book Awards (2026)A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real, the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's blistering debut The Continental Divide explore the undertow of violence and sin along the St. Lawrence Divide in northern Indiana, where men, women, and children struggle to find their way in the darkness...of the divide.