Short Stories: Twenty-One Excursions to the Edge of Chaos and Love
- ISBN-10
- 1647018560
- ISBN-13
- 9781647018566
- Series
- Short Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-09-01
- Publisher
- Page Publishing Inc
- Author
- Van Devender
Description
Excursions is a collection of twenty-one short stories whose characters’ life journeys will lead them to the edge of chaos—---the place where permanent transformation occurs ---and where love is often found. Join me as we... Risk everything on a wilderness search for The Box and the precious treasure within; Share the perplexing trials of an exotic young man on a mission to dispense mercy; Witness the outcome of villagers offering their worship to a misshapen stone; Follow the desperate attempts of an oppressed minority to flee their dying planet; Sit with the Senior Director of Human Resources as he interviews a peculiar applicant for the position of Corporate Messiah; Hear the unspoken fears of an equities broker facing the collapse of the financial markets; Dine at the country club with two business associates proposing very different plans; Enter the death row cell of an inmate on the night of his execution; Eavesdrop on the conversation between two chronically ill people—---one old, one young; Sit with a fan whose team has finally made it to the NCAA football championship game; Take a once-in-eternity chance at winning The Prize; Watch firemen desperately battle a pre-dawn fire in a block of row houses; Join two frustrated trash men stalled at a blocked railroad crossing while their load of garbage bakes in the summer sun; Take a pre-dawn ride with two men engaged in true religion; Share brunch with a Broadway star trying to woo a reluctant agent to her cause; Discover the fate of a harassed and ailing pornography distributor; Go fishing on an autumn evening with a small-town boy and his special little sister; Learn the life- and- death decision of a grieving widow; Stand in line behind Willie Gene Johnson as the bank refuses to validate his parking ticket; Get behind the mic with a talk radio host trying to boost ratings with edgy topics; and Rock along with an elderly couple whose mailbox has disappeared in the high grass of their uncut lawn. As our characters speak and act, I hope you’ll see how decisions made on the edge of chaos may define your soul and shape your destiny as well.
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