These short stories are about youths and octogenarians and other ordinary people facing extraordinary situations. How do the characters handle themselves? Read these shorts and find out.Aside from one science fiction and two fantasies, they run theMoreThese short stories are about youths and octogenarians and other ordinary people facing extraordinary situations.
How do the characters handle themselves? Read these shorts and find out.Aside from one science fiction and two fantasies, they run the gamut from thrillers to humor, revenge, and romance. Many of them supply one or more surprise twists (a la O. Henry) at the end.One is about a wildly popular entertainer who manages to solve his own murder. Another deals with a duel between two cowboy friends in which the duel could be characterized almost as non-violent.
Then there’s the hunter whose prize display of snow geese is wrecked by his artist wife- in his shoes, how would you react? Or suppose you’re eighty-three and your similar-age wife and next-door neighbor appear to be having a hot affair-which one should you shoot? What if you’re a middle-aged adoptee and get a chance to identify your birth mother-would you bend the rules to do so?These and thirty-some other tales await you in this never-boring collection.