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Rags and Bones: Collected Writings of Verland T Whipple
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A collection that moves from the tenderness of a father's love poem to the terror of a hired hand who is not what he seems - from a mistaken-identity comedy in a doctor's waiting room to a soldier's final, silent act of mercy in a shell hole at night.
Rags and Bones gathers the poetry, short fiction, and one-act plays of Verland T. Whipple - fourteen pieces written across a lifetime, now compiled and illustrated by his son. Some will make you laugh out loud. Others will stay with you long after the page is turned.
Inside, you'll find:
- Poems of love, longing, and quiet grief - tender, direct, unadorned
- Short stories that turn from the everyday into the uncanny, including a haunting tale of a farm wife and the hired hand who arrives out of nowhere, and a wartime story of cowardice, sacrifice, and the truth no one wants to hear
- One-act plays full of mistaken identities and pitch-perfect comic timing, alongside a loving send-up of the classic Western melodrama
- A fable-like tale of a town's forgotten bum, and the monument that arrives to upend everything the town thought it knew about him
Whipple's voice moves easily between warmth and shadow, comedy and elegy - sometimes within the same page. This collection is a portrait of a writer who paid close attention to people: their vanities, their kindnesses, their fears, and the stories they told themselves to get through the night.
Featuring original illustrations created for this edition, Rags and Bones is a book for readers who love language that doesn't waste a word, and stories that don't tell you how to feel.
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