The Big Game
Is Every Night

Stories

Dear Father, Sister, Mother, Lover who art in Heaven, Home, Hell, Hotel Hospital

I knew what my brother would do before I called him. That’s why I’d put it off for so long.

The other morning I picked up a hitchhiker and it turned out to be Walt Whitman.

"Robert Maynor knows South Carolina. He knows catfishing and football. More than anything, though, he knows how to spin a yarn. Each line of his poignant debut bleeds raw emotion and powerful, dark energy. The Big Game Is Every Night hits like a linebacker on a backside blitz. Not to be missed."

—Eli Cranor, author of Don’t Know Tough
"With a poetic sensibility and ceaseless attention to language, the story's style reflects its protagonist's melancholia and mania, resulting in a stunning and propulsive read."

—CRAFT Literary
Praise for “Always with You”
"So smooth, so funny, and so dark. It has all the things."

—Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
Praise for “The Rockwood Limited”
"One of the most honest works of fiction I have ever read. The Big Game Is Every Night is a bruised and brutal debut about a boy on the precipice of manhood and all the terror it entails. Maynor's novel made me want to cradle my two sons and never let go."

—JC Sasser, author of Gradle Bird
"Written in spare yet evocative prose, Robert Maynor's The Big Game is Every Night is a quiet and powerful meditation on broken families, fractured friendships, the pain of reckoning with having the thing that most defines you taken away in an instant, and the legacy violence leaves in its wake."

—John Vercher, author of After the Lights Go Out