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Facing Grace with Gloria and Other Stories explores mysteries of human desires and the unique ways each of us struggles to fulfill our meaning for existence. Each story is unique in time and setting, every character balancing strengths and weaknesses to succeed, discovering something new about themselves and the paradoxes of their worlds. This collection of short stories includes: “The Gift” “The Stonecutter” “Facing Grace with Gloria Grace” “Homunculus” “Reddog” “Captain Withers’s Wife” “The Thirteen Nudes of Ernest Goings” “Crossing Over” “The Activist” “The Perennial Student” “The Curse of a Lonely Heart” “Suchin’s Escape”
Nine short stories about American life, unrequited love, familial distrust, and unfair parental control, and a novella where cultures clash and humans survive with caring and selflessness overcoming the default of violence and destruction. Each story rich with unique characters proving they have the will to survive life's most difficult obstacles, and discover their own capabilities to affect their own destinies.
Mike Boudreaux, as a trauma surgeon Chief of Service, must discipline an impaired surgeon performing unnecessary and dangerous surgery for the obese. He is Boudreaux's former teacher and mentor, and Boudreaux falls in love with his young, beautiful, New-Orleans-socially-prominent wife. Boudreaux cannot hide the adulterous affair that erodes his career authority and reputation. Family and society reject the woman he loves unconditionally; when she moves in with Boudreaux, her rebellious daughter disappears. As Boudreaux tries to retrieve and convince the daughter to support her mother, the jealous husband's surgical career declines; a young patient dies; the public is outraged. The crazed husband blames his wife and Boudreaux for his decline and threatens violent revenge. The couple plans marriage and strains to regain pride and confidence amidst the hostility of accusatory taunts of friends, family and society.
An essential guide for every writer of fiction. Learn the following: Character Narration Structure Dialogue Point of view Writing in scene Drama (conflict-action-resolution) Humor Revision
Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian, a famous wealthy football player. He expects to recapture the love he knew with his parents before they died and become a doctor like his father. But in his new home of celebrities, crooks, untrustworthy guardian, and excessively wealthy deviants, both lust and want thwart his search for love. In his quest to become a doctor, the profit motivation of health care and deficient morality in scientific discovery make him question his dedication to medicine. A finalist in the 2012William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Lucy MacMiel is a successful trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, married, who falls in love with a client accused of sexual assault on a girl. He is a famous and powerful faith-healing evangelist whose charm, dominance, and virility captivate her. Her lust pulls her away from family and career and she follows her lover to Africa where she discovers secrets that force her to leave him and try to regain her life in the US. But her recovery of career, family, and friends is fraught with rejection when she cannot suppress her desire for the evangelist, the only man shell ever love, and she must again face decisions she knows in her heart if wrongly chosen may bring disastrous results.
Sister Carrie is a novella about a sister who must mother her younger sister when their parents die. The younger sister falls in love with a foreigner with a dark, undisclosed past. Cultures clash and the sisters lose caring and selflessness in a web of violence and destruction. A story rich with unique characters proving they have will to survive life's most difficult obstacles, and discover inner resources to affect their own destinies.
Award-winning short stories of characters facing moral decisions that stretch their lives to mirror who they are and what they might become. And a novella, set in New Orleans, that pits and adulterous, deeply-in-love couple against society, family, and themselves as they struggle to regain self-respect and acceptance among threats of violent revenge
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