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L. Wade Powers
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Everyday life is full of challenges. Meet Starlight Bernie, an old man alone on a train; Fig Newton, a boy with a peculiar hobby; the Pizza Kid and his dog Rainbow, struggling to forget; the woman in the shroud; a professor who investigates a futuristic love store; a man who wants to end the world as we know it; and many more.
Included in these twenty stories, four poems, and three photo-essays are problems with family relationships, trials in dating and mating rituals, the perils of growing up, observations on social communication and miscommunication, and overcoming inevitable tragedies. And beyond the real, the ordinary and expected? There are places and times where the boundaries shift and limits are less well defined.
confronting the boundaries
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The time is August 1956 through July 1957 and a number of iconic pop cultural images and events are woven into the life of a thirteen-year-old boy, Walt, who changes from a book and nature-loving introvert to a mature teenager in a dormitory environment that exaggerates social interactions and accelerates adolescent development. He and the other residents of The Home adapt and respond to the challenges of living together, sharing their fears and triumphs, overcoming tragedies (suicide, dorm violence) and experiencing the rituals of communal punishment and bonding. Several male and female teenagers interact and change dramatically as the story unfolds. Walt reflects on his life inside and outside The Home, especially his growing awareness of the opposite sex, relations with his mother and sister, and his visions of the future.
THE HOME
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From the author of The Home and Falling in Love and Other Misadventures comes a novel of improbable choices and imperfect people. What could possibly go wrong? In the Texas Gulf coast in the 1970s, a tavern named The Party House hosts an eclectic clientele of hippies, rednecks, tourists, and others, along with their schemes, dreams, and relationships. Into the craziness steps Pete, a serious graduate student arriving on the island to conduct field research. He quickly succumbs to the drinking, dancing, gambling, and intimacies associated with the summertime beach life and wintertime bar life. His five-year sojourn includes an encounter with an outlaw biker gang, attempts to play pimp for a friend, surviving a hurricane, and confrontations with drunks, an angry father, a massive gathering of sharks, and poisonous jellyfish. Island life includes a young female pool hustler, an all night peyote party, and an assortment of has been and wanna be characters. Ultimately, Pete must choose between a demanding academic career or continue the raucous and comfortable lifestyle he has come to embrace.
THE PARTY HOUSE
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Life consists of adventures, big and small. Love and satisfaction, in its many forms, don’t always come easy, as these tales of ordinary people in their searches for happiness attest. Real life, a bit of fantasy, love gone bad, the thrill of adventure gone astray, the mystery of lucid dreams—they are all present and accounted for.
FALLING IN LOVE
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Celebrate 2018 with New Year themed short stories from some of the authors of Linkville Press! All proceeds from the sales of this book will go to the Children's Miracle Network.
A LINKVILLE PRESS
NEW YEAR |