Bøger af Samuel E Cole

Samuel E. Cole's first collection of short stories provides all the hilarity, all the pathos, and all the passion readers of his poetry have come to expect. Bloodwork is full of strange, fascinating characters doing strange, fascinating things to one another, portrayed in energetic, often breathless prose: "Stormie's thoughts overcloud themselves again, this time taking on the scary elements of a rain-soaked evening fifteen years earlier, when her parent's voices collided like thunder and lightning, her father's veiny hands strangling her mother's veiny neck before tossing her to the floor like a stuffed animal, leaving the front door wide open as he drove off as fast as wild rain, her mother's trembling hands leading Mary into the kitchen to sit on lime-green seat cushions, telling Mary, "Now it's time you hear the sad story of how Aprosinia Plakovich met Randall Dunkle. Are you ready?"

A gay, homeless man, who gives shelter tours, crashes quite unexpectedly into a former lover. A sailboat captain hates, and loves, his daily routine. Burgeoning sexual orientation erupts between two teenage boys on a road trip to Alabama. A father takes extraordinary lengths to see his son. A man travels to Whitefish, Montana in July to give Christmas gifts to three little girls. A mother shows up at her son's nursing home and demands to be seen. A couple, after a dinner party, debates the nuance and missteps of a long, parsimonious marriage. A middle-aged man, due to a breakup, drives to and stops at a town in which he has never been and meets a man who challenges his secrets and lies. Ettrick, whose parents don't believe in God, wants to be baptized in the pond behind the farmhouse. Beatrice A. Muddler finds a career, and builds a life, in a most unlikely place. A Latino man works a most unusual job for the most powerful man in the world. Marvin, who suffers with dilated cardiomyopathy, grooms a young man from the gym for a journey neither are equipped to take. Young Thieves in a Growing Orchard is a 30,000 word literary fiction short-story collection grounded in contemporary middle class American life revealed in lucid tones of melancholy, grit, poetry, and surprising wonder. At its core, Young Thieves in a Growing Orchard is a journey of securing belonging through discovery, exploration, and oftentimes failure.

"Every word has gone through endless exacting rehearsals to shine. These are poems not only to be read, but to be memorized." ~ John-Ivan Palmer, author of 'Motels of Burning Madness' "Captures sentiment and observance in cunning detail, wit, and elegance." ~ Marge Barrett, author of 'My Memoir Dress' "The very finest of wordsmith sizzle." ~ Ted King, author of 'New Beat' and 'Coyote' "The seismic deluge continues, page after page, until the very final word crashes in and spreads across the sand." ~ 'The Write Launch Literary Magazine' Find preview snippets of 'Dollhouse Masquerade' here: https://truthserumpress.net/tastesof/a-taste-of-dollhouse-masquerade/ Find 'Dollhouse Masquerade' at Truth Serum Press here: https://truthserumpress.net/catalogue/fiction/dollhouse-masquerade/