John Manderino
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This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. Many of the stories are modern takes on classic monsters crafted with twisted plots and Twilight Zone-esque endings. For example, "Wolfman and Janice" is about a werewolf who is doing the best he can under very trying circumstances, especially when confronted with eating his elderly neighbor's cat. There's...
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It's Saturday, October 27, 1962, the darkest day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Two children, Ralph and his little sister Lou are searching for empty bottles in a vacant lot when they discover a rock, which to them, at least looks quite a lot like Jesus. Ralph immediately declares it possible Holy Object. In addition, since his fondest wish is to be a boy-in-a-story, he earnestly places himself and Lounow, his sidekick, in a tale featuring the sacred...
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At forty, Hank has decided he is through with baseball, a routine pop-up fell on his head, and he got the message. The trouble is baseball is the one thing that has given any meaning to his life. This is the painfully funny story of a man who decides to get a life, but is not sure how. It is about fathers and sons, heroes and whiners, the wheel of fortune (and Vanna White), baseball and the decline of Western civilization and why Nellie Fox always...
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