Author: | Michael A. Byrnes | ISBN: | 1230000838191 |
Publisher: | Michael A. Byrnes | Publication: | December 10, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Michael A. Byrnes |
ISBN: | 1230000838191 |
Publisher: | Michael A. Byrnes |
Publication: | December 10, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Four stories, including two "short shorts", from the keyboard of Michael A. Byrnes, a writer who possesses a knack for capturing the absurdities of everyday life. A woman mishears a question during a job interview but can't stop trying to answer it. Nuclear armaggedon heralds The Shopping Channel's demise. A father and his young son travel to to an out-of-town hockey tournament, and a cluster fly infestation is overshadowed by a doomed marriage. These exquisitelty crafted stories, told with an economy of style that wastes not a single syllable and imparts a rythym as important as the words themselves, are both funny and disturbing at the same time and definately worth a read.
Four stories, including two "short shorts", from the keyboard of Michael A. Byrnes, a writer who possesses a knack for capturing the absurdities of everyday life. A woman mishears a question during a job interview but can't stop trying to answer it. Nuclear armaggedon heralds The Shopping Channel's demise. A father and his young son travel to to an out-of-town hockey tournament, and a cluster fly infestation is overshadowed by a doomed marriage. These exquisitelty crafted stories, told with an economy of style that wastes not a single syllable and imparts a rythym as important as the words themselves, are both funny and disturbing at the same time and definately worth a read.