Chris Metteer

The Carrot Cake Girl And Nine Other Short Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anna Elling sells her delicious carrot cake to passing tourists in her tiny southeastern Colorado town. A young man arrives, and she recognizes him even though she's never seen him before. He's the spittin' image of his father, a man town folks called The Knife when he was here about thirty years ago. Residents tagged him with that nickname because he was slender and had an arrogant attitude that slices through his surroundings. Anna was only 13 years old then, but she remembers something else. The Knife tasted like cigarettes. Now she must face memories she's tried to keep hidden for decades. Her plight is only one story in this collection. Liana Podborny faces a cancer diagnosis in her first visit with a noted surgeon in The Magnificent Dr. Five Star. Ishmael delivers pizzas in the Los Angeles suburbs and lives a humdrum life until he meets the perfect girl in My Angel Angelica. Daryl Colley is the polite owner who delivers better offerings to one woman (and his wife finds out about it) in Good Service at the Y Not. Ed Stone is an elderly man who tries to counsel a young couple considering an abortion in Coffee and Wisdom at the Food Court. Alden Ames looks forlornly at the home he and his family used to occupy and remembers better times in The Empty House. Doris Mae McAuliffe fights against the racist attitudes she was brought up with in Rebel To The Core. A twisted modern take on Jonathan Swift's iconic satire is unveiled in A Modest Proposal, Revisited. Bobby Harrell tries to be strong in a Central American jail and relies on his grandma's wise advice in Integrity. A writer faces a cosmic challenge when he finishes his short stories in The Final Chapter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chris Metteer
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005041212
• Artikelnr.: 72389031

Autorenporträt

I was a veteran writer/editor at several great newspapers in the American West. I rely on my journalism instincts in almost everything I do. My latest work, The Search for Circe, concentrates on broken relationships, emotional wounds from childhood and divorce, and attempts to find redemption.

I love to travel and learn something every day. I enjoy family, good friends, cappuccinos, good beer and Manhattans, great movies, and novels that grab me by the collar and pull me along. Life is good.