Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos - Cary, Lorin Lee
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Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos is a collection of twenty-nine unique flash fiction pieces, none over 1000 words. The shortest is only 128 words long. So these are fast reads. Some short short stories are humorous, others thoughtful, but all are designed to illuminate various characters. Included are a con man who plans to entice writers, a superhero who suffers from an embarrassing emission, a man diagnosed as bland, a waitress who listens to her customers and at night writes best sellers, a person who collects phrases, the interior life of a man raised to be serious, a policewoman who is…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos is a collection of twenty-nine unique flash fiction pieces, none over 1000 words. The shortest is only 128 words long. So these are fast reads. Some short short stories are humorous, others thoughtful, but all are designed to illuminate various characters. Included are a con man who plans to entice writers, a superhero who suffers from an embarrassing emission, a man diagnosed as bland, a waitress who listens to her customers and at night writes best sellers, a person who collects phrases, the interior life of a man raised to be serious, a policewoman who is herself, well, that's getting ahead of the story. Then there's the family history buff who discovers insertions in his private notes, ones he didn't enter, an innocent moviegoer analyzed by a couple sitting on either side of him, and a woman who thought the gun had blanks in it when she told her husband to shut up. Included are thirty or so photographs taken in various places. I always look for the odd or funny juxtaposition, which these pictures reflect. There are signs advertising fake watches, no-fishing on a dock filled with fishermen, and one cautioning "No Passing" next to a cemetery. The pictures don't illustrate the stories themselves. They fit the quirky theme and may promote a laugh.
Autorenporträt
Lorin Lee Cary taught Labor and Social History at the University of Toledo and, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In addition to a number of articles and essays, he co-authored No Strength Without Union: Ohio Workers 1803-1980 (Ohio Historical Society, 1982) and Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1776 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Both won the Ohio Academy of History's Distinguished Book Award.Since 1994 Cary has been a member of the Cambria Writer's Workshop, one of the oldest critique groups in California. His stories have appeared in Corvus Review, Fiction on the Web, Horror Sleeze Trash, Impspired, 101 Words and others. He published The Custer Conspiracy (Book Baby, 2009), California Dreaming (Scarlet Leaf, 2017), and (based on interviews with Lu Chi Fa) My Good Fortune: Memoir of a Chinese Orphan's Success in America (BookLocker, 2019). The forthcoming Quick and Quirky, Stories and Photos (2024) links his interests in flash fiction with his love of photography.Cary's interest in photography began as a kid in a YMCA class and blossomed in later years. He has won awards for images in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Toledo, Ohio, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cambria, California. Photos have been published in Typehouse Magazine, Crux, and Carolina Muse.