The Strangeness (Paperback)

In these 42 "sudden fictions" - fictional stories of about 500 words each - Tom Nugent asks, among several other burning questions: "Who put the "dih" in the dih-dih-dih?" He fails to answer the question, however. Still, he gives it his best. In one of the stranger narratives to be found in this thoroughly odd collection, a tormented English 101 instructor goes eyeball to eyeball with a tank full of floating jellyfish at the Chicago Aquarium. Can the "jellies" help him understand the true nature of human reality? Other stories focus on a short-tempered man with a glass eye, a senile Irishman who triggers an outbreak of social mayhem at a gambling casino run by Ojibwas, and a heartsick jilted husband whose life changes forever after he watches a Baltimore Gas & Electric Company meter reader morph into a fire-snorting bull. What does it all mean? Nugent says he doesn't know. He's a journalist, novelist, short-story writer - and the father of four astonishingly independent minded young women.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	September 2011
Authors:	Tom Nugent
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	182
ISBN-13:	978-1-4663-0905-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	1-4663-0905-9
Barcode:	9781466309050

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