Wheels, Ron Tanner's prize-winning chapbook, tells the story of Rainy, a drummer on the Nevada casino circuit. When she learns of her father's heart attack, she quits her gig and returns home to California to see her folks in the small orange-grove town of Exeter.

Written in 500-word micro-chapters, "Wheels" is fast and funny.

Pub date: May 2010
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What a fine story—moving, fast-paced, wise. I thoroughly enjoyed Wheels, Ron Tanner’s witty, tender story about love across generations and miles. Wheels is by turns dramatic, light-hearted, funny.

And it contains one of the best paragraphs in prose: “Most horror movies are like bad sex, I'd decided. By the time you get to the over-rated pay-back, you're just worn out and disgusted at yourself for having put up with so much for so little.”

Treat yourself to this little gem.
          Valerie Miner, author of After Eden and The Low Road.

Wheels is a terse, tough, and lovely little road trip into the province of regret. I zoomed straight through it and wanted more.
          Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

I just finished "Wheels," reminding myself why I love Ron Tanner's stories: because they take me so beguilingly, surprisingly far away--to places and lifetimes I'd never witness otherwise--while taking me so far inside.

Tanner is a writer with versatility, elegance, and wit to burn, but in the end his greatest gift is his ability to penetrate the hearts of whatever characters he's chosen to inhabit and take us in there with him. When we return to hearts of our own, they feel just that much larger. A Bed of Nails remains one of the most beautifully strange and unpredictably moving story collections I have ever read.
         Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and The Widower's Tale

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