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ISBN10: 1500645311
ISBN13: 9781500645311
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 26 2014
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781500645311
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 26 2014
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nineteen short stories by Talmadge Walker, some sci-fi, some historical, some humorous, some sad. In Independent Study an English Lit student travels in time to meet Geoffrey Chaucer. A dinner menu creates havoc for interstellar diplomats in Dinnertime. Two people manage to beat the system in a futuristic corporate police state in On Ice. And in In the Air a hermit tries to cope when the earth is invaded by bumbling bureaucrats from out space. A poorly-named ladies' man can't seem to stay out of trouble in The Timely Disappearance of Van Dorn Sickles Smith. In Kunu-Ri two buddies from Turkey try to stay alive in Korea. Bob Marley's ghost helps a reggae star avoid temptation in A Christmas Carol in Kingston. In Gilead a young woman seeks to find meaning after a tragic auto accident. An age-old struggle is re-enacted in a boxing ring in The Title. In Desert Vision Antoine de Saint-Exupery finds inspiration in desert hallucinations. In Incident along the Somme a British soldier struggles to survive between the trenches. And some deacons are confronted with an unspeakable confession in Confession. In William Wiley Prickett Confederate prisoner-of-war tries to find a way home. A father-to-be covers up a sad secret in Love and Little White Lies. In Grandmother an aging woman in Alabama rejects racism. And a grandmother in Virginia seeks a way to reach out to her husband suffering from dementia in Calling Ruby.
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