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Ten short stories on very different subjects, includingE Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship finally approaches its destination at Tau Ceti. The people have adapted well to their shipboard environment on the long voyage - perhaps too well.The Case of the Red Herring - The Sherlock Holmes case Conan Doyle forgot to write - the mysterious case of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant.The House - A man brings his family back to see the house he grew up in, and finds much changed - but not all.The Luck of the Irish - Three Irishmen, escaped convicts from Port Jackson, capture a schooner and try to slip past a Royal Navy frigate.The Classic - a young actress of the verge of stardom meets a man who seems to know too much about her future career.The Old One - the last mammoth fins release from loneliness.The Dreamer - a man wanders through a strange and beautiful dream, but awakening brings an unexpected surprise.Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man attends a college choral concert and discovers one of the singers is the perfect image of his lost love, still eighteen years old.Coyote - A Navajo medicine man confronts his apprentice who was strayed.Eight East - A young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week in a mental ward and finds himself both teacher and student.
About the Author: Brian K. Crawford is a computer programmer living in Marin County, California, with his wife and son. In addition to short fiction, he has written a historical novel Toki about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. His stories have been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona's Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where his story The Heat won the Grand Prize. His short-short story Heart to Heart won Honorable Mention in the Whim's Place 2006 Flash Fiction contest, and The Find won Second Prize in their 2007 contest.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781460934524
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 292
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 444 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1460934520
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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