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The Sewing Machine and Other Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Bachsez Press
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Humor, suspense, crime, and mischief abound in this highly imaginative collection of nine short stories and two novellas. As in his first book, Grandpa Gets a Tattoo and Other Stories (2025), Michael Massee's page-turning stories are rich with unexpected turns, red herrings, and surprise endings.
A mysterious visual disturbance leads to a missing person, then to a shocking revelation. One sewing machine changes three lives-first for an abandoned Mormon wife, then for a talented teenage boy, and finally for a girl in an oppressive Indian boarding school. Difficult questions are asked: How do we relate to a neighbor with an intractable mental illness? Is mercy killing ever justified? What if we could choose what happens when we die?
In Affliction, a crusty, old-time newspaperman meets a warehouse clerk beset by messages from beyond, a midlife crisis, and a very overbearing mother; they team up to solve two mysteries-and along the way reinvigorate their own lives. This collection also serves up a sitcom actor with delusions of grandeur, a teenage Christmas prank gone wrong, a neighborhood murder mystery, crime-fighting birds-and a Great American Novel you can finish in only eight minutes!
Massee's stories are by turns poignant and witty, thoughtful and irreverent, displaying his flair as a natural storyteller.
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