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Sextet
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of the weirdest, wildest, most explosive young voices in fiction... a strange marvel.
Spontaneous, fun... Pure jazz. Petrus pens ecstatic triumph over suffering.
Petrus has a knack for making you fall in love with unlovable things.
A grandmother finds the spectre of death lurking in her kitchen.
She does what comes natural. She offers to make it a snack.
Things go downhill from there.
Sometimes sophisticated. Sometimes sophomoric. Sometimes sweet and salient. The six stories of Sextet ooze, among other things, empathy and humor and a deep appreciation of life's stranger side.
In Amateur Expert, a young woman learns the joys of painting, whether she likes it or not. In Crooked House, a mad scientist realizes his dream to create a tesseract, with horrifying results. In For Lack of Camouflage, two work colleagues go on a dangerous hunt for dragon eggs. In Luck and Love, a young woman finds an unlikely connection to her estranged prepper parents. In The Next Lesson, a soul soars through multiple lives in an effort to learn one of the universe's most important lessons. And in So Much for Strangers, a hostage negotiator grapples with the consequences of factory farms and generational trauma as he ventures into the woods to meet a three-eyed cowgirl who blew up her family farm.
Pat Petrus is a twenty five year-old writer and musician from Indianapolis, Indiana.
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