Finding the Offbeat and Absurd in the Ordinary




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Summary: With a cast of characters that includes a falling toddler, the manager of the last fast food joint in the world, the Devil and a talking dog Paul McCormack‘s short story collection “All the Lights That Have Shone” isn’t a book about answers, but about really interesting questions: What would you do if the world was ending? How do you say goodbye when there’s no one to say it to? What kind of person still drives a Plymouth Reliant? And, do you know the way to San Jose? More below the media player. Listen to Paul McCormack The Indie Author Life What are others saying about Paul McCormack’s short story collection? Here’s what Rick Watson, Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, said recently: You get tricked by these stories, by the voices; by the way the sentences deliver themselves to your eyes, and ears. Someone is talking, someone you feel like you know, someone who is certainly not a threat, and suddenly you find yourself sitting with that someone, one of Paul’s people, in a nondescript caf�, a caf� that is interesting for its nothingness; and you are privy to Paul’s character– the character has a nice friendly, nonthreatening (which [...]Similar Posts:Five Moons Craving a HeroIs No One Left Who Knows Compassion Anymore?One Man’s Search for a New Life – On An AsteroidThe Epic (Epic!) Story of a Magical Land in JeopardyTechnology Turned Homicidal The post Finding the Offbeat and Absurd in the Ordinary appeared first on The Bookcast.