Stories
- "Rattlesnakes"-- Three young Americans find themselves in dire circumstances in the desert, when one of them receives a snakebite on the genitals.
- "If You Liked School You'll Love Work..."-- Expatriate English publican juggles business, family and women, on the Canary Islands.
- "The DOGS of Lincoln Park"-- American yuppies and a Korean chef collide.
- "Miss Arizona"-- Struggling independent filmmaker follows in the footsteps of his hero, only to find himself much closer than he imagined.
- "Kingdom of Fife"-- Scottish Subbuteo player and ex-jockey, Jason King, seeks love and destiny amid a background of corruption and loss in this novella.
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Famous quotes containing the word stories:
“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.... For me “style” is matter.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Every one of my friends had a bad day somewhere in her history she wished she could forget but couldn’t. A very bad mother day changes you forever. Those were the hardest stories to tell. . . . “I could still see the red imprint of his little bum when I changed his diaper that night. I stared at my hand, as if they were alien parts of myself . . . as if they had betrayed me. From that day on, I never hit him again.””
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)