The Thing About Second Chances Is... - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967310911 ISBN 13: 9780967310916

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A provocative collection of short fiction, poetry and drama featuring the voices of both emerging and established writers, including:

Peter Meinke
E. Donald Two-Rivers
Robert N. Georgalas
Michael Burke
Brooke Bergan
David McGrath
Deborah Adelman
Tom Montgomery-Fate
Glenna Holloway
Patricia Ann McNair
Marco Benassi
Cris Burks
Mary Ruth Clarke
Scott Grunow
Michele Weber Hurwitz
Jo-Ann Ledger
Scott Mintzer
George Einar Nelson
Nicolette Roberts
M.J. Rychlewski
Deborah E. Ryel
Connie Scanlon
Daisy Lin Shapiro
Dorothy Terry
Edward Underhill
Sari Wilson
Ellen Zalewski

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Editor Bio - Robert N. Georgalas is an award-winning author who teaches film, literature and writing at the College of DuPage. Among the publications in which his works have appeared are: Urban Spaghetti, Hair Trigger,

Rambunctious Review, Sport Literate, Willow review, Arizona Literary Magazine, FOC Review, The Prairie Light Review and others. His first screenplay, "Unscheduled Stops," has been produced by Magic Fountain Films. His latest script, "No Giants, No Babies, No Killers" is now under consideration at 20th Century Fox.

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"Back at the house, we let go of one another's hands just long enough to undress -- Jim in his tee shirt and boxers, me in my panties -- and we got into bed on our backs and on our sides. Our hands found their way to one another across the span of cold sheet. I lay still and silent and stared at the black flatness of the ceiling and wondered if something as routine as sleep would ever come to me again." The Way It Really Went

"Instead of a hole in her side, she should have had a daughter. She would have named her Flavia, after herself, and reinvented her own life. She'd grow up tall, beautiful and smart. She'd do anything she wanted. But she would not end up like this, forty-one, no skills, no education, no children, alone on a mountain with a bitter man like Hugo, his guns and his Dobermans." La Loca

"He imagined himself and Clara, in her darkened garage, as he emerges from under the hood in triumph -- 'Just a disconnected vacuum hose,' he might say -- and she embraces him gratefully. He smells the fruit shampoo in her hair. She pulls back to say she already called work to tell them she'd be late, so why don't they go inside and..." Broken Wing

"Half a world from home, they discovered their final inhibitions about one another eroding as naturally as soil in a heavy rain. And Jennifer began to notice that he was less and less bothered by the stares of those who seemed wont to peg them as father and daughter." The Dogs of Pompeii

Details zur Ausgabe

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0967310911
• ISBN 13: 9780967310916
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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