ABOUT 

Don Foster’s fiction has appeared in Canyon Voices, The Main Street Rag, 99 Pine Street, The Dark City and elsewhere. He grew up in a farm town on Maryland's Eastern Shore and now lives in Delaware with his wife and children. When he’s not writing, he can be found masquerading as a flooring salesman. Find him on Twitter @donleefoster.

 Life doesn't always work out for the working class in this debut collection of fiction. In "Shorty Knows Bugs," a pest control salesman escapes to the bar to avoid his morbidly obese wife only to be confronted by the child he abandoned twenty years ago. In "Younger and More Capable Men," a grieving father can't finish his beer without being interrupted by an old friend needing a place to stash stolen macaws. And in the collection's title story, an unemployed preacher with a gambling problem tries his hand at becoming a lifestylepreneur with terrible repercussions. Sometimes poignant, and often hilarious, these eight stories examine a hardscrabble cast hanging on the fringes as they try to navigate loss and the connections they've shattered along the way.

"The characters in Only the Lucky are as familiar as they are fascinating; they are our fathers, our uncles, and our friends who owe us money, flawed and feckless, but full of life and love. Don Foster has written an astounding collection, a polyphonic manifesto of our common humanity."
--Noah Milligan, author of Into Captivity They Will Go

"With Only the Lucky, Don Foster gives us a bold debut story collection about everyday life, imperfect characters, and people who endure even when down on their luck. Raw and unapologetic, humorous and hopeful, these stories defy and delight."
--Vincent Chu, author of Like a Champion

"Whether you find yourself rooting for or against various characters in these stories, you'll always find yourself engaged and interested because of Don Foster's strong voice and attention to detail."
--Steve Weddle, author of Country Hardball

"Every story in Don Foster's Only the Lucky features a dark, distinctive voice you can't get enough of, and collectively capture the hell and the hope of being human. This is neo-noir at its finest."
--Greg Levin, author of In Wolves' Clothing and The Exit Man