Richard van Doren

Almost Midnight (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Short stories.
Eddie Poe (that's Edgar Allan Poe to you; he's in my wife's family tree so I have permission to be familiar) claimed repeatedly that the most effective form of writing is one that can be finished in one sitting.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I've read many, many pretty darn good novels in my day but the literary market is chock full of them. Thousands of writers try to break through with the Great American Novel each year, only to be frustrated, disappointed and finally discouraged. There are just too many of them and too little time. Many good novels end up on wholesale bookshelves, their creators having abandoned the dream of literary notoriety.
And then there's the matter of time. "I only want something I can read in its entirety before turning out the light at night. It usually takes me several pages to remind myself who is who and what is happening, if I don't actually have to retreat a few pages to gather some momentum before it all comes back to me." It's usually worth it.
Usually.
After copyrighting twelve (great American) novels, all of which are gathering "dust" on eBook sites, I've abandoned the long read and returned to the short one.
So here it is, my most recent and what may be my last- creative writing endeavor, a collection of short stories that I originally envisioned as novels, movies or TV mini-series'. None should take longer than forty-five minutes to read, just long enough to entertain before sleep claims you, or you decide to take a dip in the sea.
While very different, they all have a thread of similarity. They're all thrillers and/or adventures, enjoyable escapist entertainment, if I do say so myself.
You think I'm a fraud or a little too sure of myself? Maybe so, but there's only one way to find out.
Here's what they're about: an explosion of violence spreads like a virus through a country seething with rage in Worst Case; five men encounter a UAP on a lonely country road and are infused with visions in Too Close for Comfort; a southern gentleman inherits a plantation just prior to the Civil War and ponders a way to help his slaves is it real or is it Whimsy? A disgusted preacher abandons his call and becomes a Scourge as he seeks to mete out justice to abusers of the Gospel; when a young man takes The Exit Ramp he finds himself on the way to an eternal destination; murders and fires plague a small town and the young narrator believes he's the supernatural cause, his town's Favorite Sin; a new, horrifying weather phenomenon called blastorms rampages over land and sea, forcing a terrifying Escape From the Keys; she's beautiful, brilliant and a target leading to a dangerous confrontation between Dr. Lissie and the Psychopaths; a hastily assembled team of gifted adventurers race to Greenland to recover two obsolete nuclear missiles before dangerous company arrives (Operation Grabenbolt); a German hero of WWII shares his nightmarish ordeal, volunteering for service in a concentration camp to save his Jewish wife, The Once-Told Story; a shattered young clergyman faces his darkest fears in a sinister retreat house that will serve as a Field of Battle; a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-wells and con-artists plots an impossible caper, The Vatican Job.
Thrills and laughs await. Your move.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Van Doren
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798894431659
• Artikelnr.: 72397367

Autorenporträt

Richard Van Doren is an ordained minister in a mainline Protestant denomination. He has always been fascinated by the fringe element in American culture and the extreme events that test faith. All of his novels and short stories deal with the collision of spirituality and earthly crises, or the ongoing conflict between the forces of good and evil. He moonlights as a college composition instructor, and every semester he teaches his students the two most important rules of writing: 1) write on a subject about which you know something, and 2) write on a subject about which you feel strongly. Over the years he has read and heard about countless instances of dark invasions into every day, innocent living. Anyone who has ever experienced something very strange, or who believes that we live in a reality that extends far beyond this world of the five senses will find his novels and stories much to their liking. All of these works contain instances that Van Doren has either experienced in his career or was told about by friends, students, parishioners and family.