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Nine stories told entirely in dialogue. God on a Budget A troubled man has an unexpected nighttime visitation Doctor in the House An oncologist gives a patient a difficult diagnosis Prisoner 8086 A prison volunteer befriends an habitual offender The Reunion A pair of high school sweethearts have a poignant encounter The Therapy Session A serio-comic appointment with a hard-to-please patient The Fishing Trip A father imparts life le...

Six stories of personal encounters in compelling situations and one-on-one conversations-- The Alien of Mt, Pleasant-- An alien hunter's comical encounter with a marooned extraterrestrial. Political satire. Hands Two A standalone continuation of the supernatural tale appearing in The Festival of Sin. A man with magic beneath his fingers. Living Ugly Is beauty truly skin-deep or in the eye of the beholder? Epitaphs Two friends and bandmates i...

From the author of A Blunt Grace, Atlanta en Regalia, and The Loser Fandango.. Five stories of fantasy plus a complete novella- The Festival of Sin A trio of stories about an ancient astronaut long removed from Earth, the strange worlds and peoples he encounters, and his quest to belong- The Florentine Mirror A mirror that holds a deadly secret of long ago treachery and tragedy- The Cabbage Patch Coma patients discover a strange limbo wher...

From the author of The Loser Fandango and Atlanta en Regalia Take one disgraced District Attorney. Add a part-time philosopher-full-time barbecue grill master, a sassy but big-hearted waitress, a transgender stuck in limbo on a pay-as-you-go plan, a woman with an intellectual disability who forgets which are swear words and which aren't, and a speech-impaired Latino in the U.S. illegally. Stir them together in a bucolic village on the coast of...

Everyone has a story Everyone has secrets A cancer patient's stream of consciousness A teenager's coming of age with a mysterious girl A veteran's Korean War reminiscences A baseball scout's encounter with a legendary creature in 1940's Alabama An Alzheimer's patient's last days of clarity

There's a serial killer loose in Atlanta and the only man who suspects is a washed-up cop on his way out. Fighting time, fighting apathy, and fighting himself, he's on his own, on his last legs, and down to the wire. Unrue skewers the genteel South and gets away with it. Social satire at its finest...

Henry Van Boorean made his own way--backstreet boxing, bootleg wine-making, and homemade fertilizer (spiked with roadkill). The Great Depression hit everyone hard. The people of Hopewell Valley, Kentucky, were unmoved. They had always been hit hard. With his polio-stricken wife, two raucous sons, a temperamental rooster, and a cast of eccentric characters, Van Boorean's Hill is the anti-Waltons...and decidely more true-to-life. A slice of Appa...