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[John Mantooth] ☆ Shoebox Trainwreck ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Shoebox Trainwreck Having really enjoyed Mantooth's other work I was ready to catch up Eddie Bringer I came to John Mantooth's SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK after reading his YEAR OF THE STORM and BROKEN BRANCH, although this collection of short stories was published before both. Having really enjoyed Mantooth's other work I was ready to catch up on SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK and I am happy to say, it did not disappoint. The stories in this book carry an air of mystery, of longing and regret, and Mantooth's strong writing see them
| Title | : | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1926851544 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
Six survivors in an underground bunker discuss the possibility of Armageddon being an elaborate hoax. And in the title story, a former train conductor must confront the ghosts of his past while learning that it''s not the dead who haunt the living, but the other way around. A young girl takes a journey to see what is really hidden within the belly of an ancient water tower. "The living haunt the dead" These fifteen genre-bending stories are set against a backdrop of sudden violence and profound regret, populated by characters whose circumstances and longings drive them to the point of no return and sometimes even further. Two brothers take a walk on the dark side of the wheat field and discover that some bonds are stronger than death. A high school senior learns about defiance on a school bus and witnesses a tragedy that he won''t soon forget. Traversing the back roads of the south and beyond, these stories probe the boundaries of imagination, taking the reader to the fringes of a society where the world looks different, and once you visit, you won''t ever be the same.
Having really enjoyed Mantooth's other work I was ready to catch up Eddie Bringer I came to John Mantooth's SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK after reading his YEAR OF THE STORM and BROKEN BRANCH, although this collection of short stories was published before both. Having really enjoyed Mantooth's other work I was ready to catch up on SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK and I am happy to say, it did not disappoint. The stories in this book carry an air of mystery, of longing and regret, and Mantooth's strong writing see them all through. I wholeheartedly recommend this and anything else by this writer.. Aunique, startling, moving collection of genre-twisting stories John Mantooth's Shoebox Train Wreck is a unique, startling, moving collection of genre-twisting stories that play out in those shadowed places that linger as the sun goes down. These stories happen in the marginalized, dark nooks and crannies of life that most folks only dare look at out of the corner of their eyes, if at all. Some of the best stories are:"A Long Fall Into Nothing", in which an unhealthy, symbiotic relationship spirals down to its only, inevitable conclusion. "The Water Tower", in which two friends embark on a journey and find something more horrible and sadder than the dead "alien" they'd been looking for."Walk the Wheat. Southern Literature at Its Finest Alicia If the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor were to reproduce, the result would be John Mantooth's writing. This collection of short stories is Southern (Gothic, perhaps) Literature at its best, the South at its worst--and realest.Sometimes, perhaps too often, the South is idealized to be full of friendly small towns where everybody waves at everybody. Once you get inside these places, though, what's exposed is something much darker--and that's what we get in Shoebox Train Wreck.In the collection, we encounter problems like alcoholism, divorce, death, and ultimately living with the consequences of mistakes we've made. Many of t
"good, spare, bleak storytelling, and some haunting images that will stick with readers"-Publisher's Weekly
His short fiction has been published in Fantasy Magazine, Crime Factory, Thuglit, and the Stoker winning anthology, Haunted Legends (Tor, 2010), among others. . John Mantooth is an award-winning author whose short stories have been recognized in numerous year's best anthologies
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