One of America's foremost short story writers has made available 3 of his most intriguing stories for a new introductory ebook. These 3 stories (first published in the 1980s) were chosen because they are accessible, intricately written and provocative on many levels. Also included is a long interview with the author about the craft of storytelling. Total: 23,000 words.One of America's foremost short story writers has made available 3 of his most intriguing stories for a new promotional ebook. These 3 stories (first published in the 1980s) were chosen because they are accessible, intricately written and provocative on many levels. Also included is a long interview with the author about the craft of storytelling. Total: 23,000 words.87 year old Jack Matthews has published hundreds of short stories, 7 novels and 8 volumes of literary essays. This ebook republishes three of Jack Matthews' best stories. "Amos Smith, the Gunsmith" reaches into the folk tale tradition to produce a nice allegory about human labor. "A Woman of Properties" is a satirical suburban tale (reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor or Cheever) about a real estate agent with a grudge. "The Girl at the Window" is an unsettling and mysterious tale about our relationship to the past. This short promotional ebook is intended to introduce new readers to the fiction of Jack Matthews. Personville Press is dedicated to publishing and republishing several low-cost editions of Jack Matthews novels and short stories in ebook format. During his career as a writer, Mr. Matthews was distinguished professor of Fiction Writing at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for over 4 decades. Winner of Guggenheim and several arts grants, Matthews has been anthologized widely, translated into several languages and nominated for a National Book Award. His own books have been praised by Eudora Welty, Anthony Burgess, Shirley Ann Grau, Tim O’Brien, Doris Grumbach, Walker Percy and a host of other famous and highly accomplished authors."Mr. Matthews is a master of prose conversation and deadpan charm. He is ironic, cool, and shrewd, and he writes a lucid prose." (Tim O'Brien, New York Times)"Matthews' always graceful prose finds that precise telling detail. It's easy to fall in love with such writing." (Perry Glasser, North American Review)"Engaging wit and irony have been characteristic of Matthews's writing from the start, and both are strongly present in his latest gatherings of stories. His irony is increasingly darker, however, and his characters' obsession with memory and its distortions plays a more dominant role in this later work, much of which deals with death. For the most part, these are stories with deceptively simple and ordinary surfaces, but they are driven by powerful and ominous undercurrents, which often fuse the local and regional with the archetypal. Few can do it better. Without question, Matthews has established himself as one of America's finest storytellers." (Stanley Lindberg, editor, Georgia Review) Views: 441
The explosive new thriller from New York Times–bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.
Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.
Devastated by Carl’s condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there’s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon—including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender—to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.
What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions.
When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they’re into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all. Views: 440
"Saying words express emotion is far too vague. It would take digging up the emotions in an insane asylums cemetery to understand what I feel." The seventh part in the series Apollyon's Saint. Gabriel find's himself lost in dream's every time he goes to sleep. While his rebellion faces their first threat, Morrighan. Who has been summoned by a witch, and now she seeks to use Gabriel as a weapon.A part from the fact she sees her dead brother, Savannah's normal. She discovers the dream world where your nightmares try to kill you until you learn to control your imagination. Someone has been going around killing people and their dream protector to try and obtain power that would allow him to rule the dream, and he's strangely obsessed with Savannah as if he knows her. Oh there's a moral too.Have fun reading about how Savannah almost gets killed by her greatest fears learns how to fight with her imagination. Imagine if the real world was like that, authors would rule the world!She learns some lessons about friendship along the way and blah blah blah.It's actually pretty good, you should read it. Views: 439
A Jack Scarlet adventure! Jack decides to "find himself" with a solo trek through the jungle. Unfortunately, a team of murderous mercenaries wants to find him too. Think your day got off to a bad start? It is nothing compared to Jack's! The coffee is hot and the action is hotter! Get your bullets for breakfast starting: Now!Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Summer 2014: Anne Rankin-Kotchek | Letter to the World from a Dying Woman & other poemsSara Graybeal | Ghetto City & other poemsTee Iseminger | Construction & other poemsLisa Beth Fulgham | After They Sold the Cows... & other poemsMary Mills | The Practical Knowledge of Women & other poemsMonika Cassel | Waldschatten, Muttersprache & other poemsMichael Fleming | To a Fighter & other poemsDaniel Stewart | January & other poemsJohn Glowney | Cigarettes & other poemsHannah Callahan | The Ptarmigan Suite & other poemsLee Kisling | How the Music Came to My Father & other poemsJose A. Alcantara | Finding the God Particle & other poemsDavid A. Bart | Veteran’s Park & other poemsGreg Grummer | War Reportage & other poemsRande Mack | rat & other poemsJ. K. Kitchen | Anger Kills Himself & other poemsJim Pascual Agustin | The Man Who Wished He Was Lego & other poemsJessica M. Lockhart | Scylla of the Alabama & other poemsJames P. Leveque | Three Films of Jean Painlevé & other poemsKelsey Charles | Autobiography & other poemsTherese L. Broderick | Polly & other poemsLane Falcon | Touch & other poemsRicky Ray | The Bird & other poemsPhoebe Reeves | Every Petal & other poemsDavid Livingstone Fore | Eternity is a very long time... & other poemsTim Hawkins | Northern Idyll & other poemsAbigail F. Taylor | On the Pillow Where You Lie & other poemsJoey DeSantis | Baby Names & other poemsCameron Price | Every Morning & other poemsDavid Walker | Sestina for Housesitting & other poemsHelen R. Peterson | Ablaut & other poems Views: 439
Sometimes the Lessons Don’t End When the Dismissal Bell Rings! When Dayana Forbes finds her introverted classmate Caleb in the aftermath of a brutal attack by another student, her view of her school as a safe haven is left shattered in smears of blood.Sometimes the Lessons Don’t End When the Dismissal Bell RingsSchool was supposed to be a safe haven, a place to build character in preparation for the real world. But when Dayana Forbes finds her introverted classmate Caleb in the aftermath of a brutal attack by another student, that illusion is left shattered in smears of blood. In the wake of such a brutal assault, Dayana will see that the character school builds isn’t always the stuff of academic integrity. Views: 439
A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D'Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone. Includes Author Interview 14 pages. Views: 438
