Tight Shorts: Diverse Short Stories

Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, includingThe Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lot of time provide an overview of a lifeColby - An explorer pushes the limits of what can be learned of life and death - and the space betweenThe Visitor - A look at travel in the coming age of energy shortagesA Connecticut Yankee in King Neptune's Court - How did a Union dog tag come to be found in a Confederate submarine?Sibyl - What of us will survive after we are gone? Only our houses - and their thoughts?The McKinley Cut - What might have happened when President McKinley came to Marin County to ride the Crookedest Railroad in the World.An Occurrence in the Indian Ocean - Some old seamen never die - but they should have.Tango Uniform - Life and death in a WWII destroyerThe Siren of the South - The little-known story of the female Confederate blockade runner

Author: Brian K. Crawford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 02/20/2011
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781460946992

About the Author
Brian Crawford is a computer programmer living in Marin County, California, with his wife and son. In addition to several collections of short fiction and a series of memoirs about his hippie days, he has written Toki, a historical novel about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. He has also reprinted a number of out-of-print books about Pacific exploration. His fiction has been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona's Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where his story The Heat won a Grand Prize. His short-short story Heart to Heart won Honorable Mention in the Whim's Place 2006 Flash Fiction contest, and The Find won Second Prize

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