HARVEY POOL was born and raised on the north side of Chicago. He attended elementary and high school in that city and graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. Mr. Pool’s short story, Uncle Leo, won a Glimmer Train Honorable Mention Award. It was one of the stories in his collection of short fiction, Along the Way, which was nominated for the 27th Annual Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) EVVY Awards as one of the Best Independent Published Books of 2020. In 2021 he published Looking Back, a collection of his poems written from 1962-2021. Mr. Pool has lived in Chicago and Los Angeles and currently resides in Chicago with his wife, Susan.
Limping Toward the Styx
New Stories and Poems 2023
by Harvey Pool
Limping Toward the Styx
New Stories and Poems 2023
by Harvey Pool
Published Mar 29, 2023
132 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Book Details
A local basketball hero comes to a sad end. An aging movie legend’s power ebbs. A once promising artist reaches out to an old friend with astonishing results. A long-divorced couple meet for the last time. When his brother dies, his only sibling considers their life-long relationship. The author wonders who will remember his long-dead beloved grandfather and muses about his own mortality.
These short stories and poems explore the human heart with empathy and insight. Writing that is personal and universal.
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