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...
In these 42 "sudden fictions" - fictional stories of about 500 words each - Tom Nugent asks, among several other burning questions: "Who put the "dih"...
Who Killed Harry Zalenka? The news is all over CNN. A dead U.S. Congressman has just washed up on the Maryland shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Which means it's time for Tommy Moon to go to work. Moon is a Baltimore-based "stringer" for People magazine. Usually, he covers stories about famous people in the news - celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. But this time, the veteran stringer won't be filing the usual fluff. Because a mole is loose at the CIA - and the mole doesn't want Moon to find out what happened to Harry Zalenka. As the action heats up and the odds against his survival...
Who Killed Harry Zalenka? The news is all over CNN. A dead U.S. Congressman has just washed up on the Maryland shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Which mean...