Eight Memorable and Interesting Stories ...
This book is a collection of eight fictional stories, two each in four genres. “Golden Angels” and “Promise Made in Saigon” are short-short stories which were awarded (respectively) First and Second Place in the Wisconsin Veterans Creative Writing Contest. “The Buffalo Hunters” and “The End of the Road” are short stories. The first is historical fiction from four perspectives, three in 1873 and one today: the Federal Government, a recruiter of buffalo Sharpshooters, the hunters in their last camp after a summer of hunting and today in Upper Michigan where two high school students begin to learn of the buffalo skinners of the mid-19th Century. “The End of the Road” begins with a crime in Ruston, Louisiana, and ends with a fugitive who goes to Ashland, Wisconsin, at the other end of the highway. The first novella, London and Down Under, concerns a young Londoner who is framed and sent to the Australian Penal Colony in Australia in 1842, who, in the story, is released and returned to London to seek justice and redemption. Sabotage at the Shipyard is a mystery-crime story set in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, during World War II when submarines were built in the heartland city. Lastly, two scripts are included, one a screen play and the other a stage play. The Night the Playground Closed takes place on New Year’s Eve, 1958, in Havana, Cuba, the time when Fidel Castro came to power. No One Will Ever Know is a historical fiction stage play about the 1962 USSR satellite that crashed in Manitowoc and the theory that a cosmonaut perished on that flight. May you enjoy the stories.
