7 títulos para "Swenson Jack"

Becoming Young

Swenson, Jack

Read these stories carefully. Read them one, two, three times. There's more here than meets the eye. Some of the stories are fictions; some are not. Some are what I call "fictional memoirs"-make believe with a bit of truth mixed in. There are a few rewrites of old stories, too. My favorite stories...

Local Hero

Swenson, Jack

People have asked me why I don't write a novel. Well, one or two people have asked me that. I always reply that I am a sprinter and not a long-distance runner. Indeed, I prefer the fifty to the hundred-yard dash. The short form is a lovely thing. For years I have admired its economy, its punch, its...

Bad Apples

Swenson, Jack

A drunk finds an angel on a Greyhound bus, two old codgers stir up trouble at a retirement home when they open a sports book, family and friends of a Lutheran bride suffer through a wedding in a Catholic church. You'll find these stories and more in this delightful garden of fictional tales. "It's...

Wild Turkeys & Other Stories

Swenson, Jack

Jack Swenson has yet to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his submissions are snubbed by many prestigious journals, which in his opinion is shocking and disgraceful and smacks of bias against old, straight, white men. Legal action is pending. Meanwhile, he carries on, scribbling his stories on...

Menage a Trois & Other Stories

Swenson, Jack

A hit man gets some work in Sin City, a tryst goes awry for a pair of senior citizens, an alcoholic cop makes a dramatic appearance at a rehab, a young man makes a midnight visit to some friends' bedroom. All these tales and many more in Menage a Trois & Other Stories, a book of flash fiction by Jac...

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Swenson, Jack

Read these stories carefully. They're large. Read them one, two, three times. There's more here than meets the eye. Some of the stories are jokes, some confessions, some mysteries. There are rewrites of stories written earlier, too. My favorite stories are those where there's something left out, wh...

The Night Heron's Scream

Swenson, Jack

I get inspirations for my stories in some odd places and at some strange times. I wrote one of these stories after a shower one morning as I was putting on my clothes and drying my hair. Some of the stories are rewrites of old ones, but most of them are new. In this collection I have tried to avo...