Blues in the Shadows
Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
| Author: | Bruce Barber | ISBN: | 9780991780143 |
| Publisher: | Bruce Barber | Publication: | December 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bruce Barber |
| ISBN: | 9780991780143 |
| Publisher: | Bruce Barber |
| Publication: | December 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Blues in the Shadows collects for the first time the published short fiction of Canadian author Bruce Barber. These finely-crafted tales defy categorization into genre, but whether you are a fan of whimsy, fantasy, SF, magic realism, horror, or humour, you will find something here to delight and surprise you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BLUES IN THE SHADOWS: In the Arizona desert, a racist sheriff brutalizes those whom he should be protecting … but justice may lurk in the shadows.
RITA HAYWORTH STALKS THE NIGHT: An empty house. A winter night. A broken heart. An escaped murderer...
PURSUED BY A BEAR: How does Shakespeare's oddest stage-direction relate to a Halloween party in small-town Ontario? Attend the festivities and find out!
JHORZIA AND THE DRAGON: Think you've heard everything there is to know about dragons and warriors? So did the beautiful Jhorzia... until she met the beast.
THE MARILYN MACHINE: Obsessed with screen legend Marilyn Monroe, Harvey Berenger builds a magical device to bring her back from the dead, but all does not go as planned.
WIDOW'S WALK: On a house miles from the sea is a Widow's Walk and on this Walk stands a mysterious woman, while the Aurora Borealis shines far overhead.
COLLABORATION: What happens when the paths of a melancholy cyborg and a long-dead musician cross?
THE CRYSTAID: Michael enters an exotic reality which is inhabited, or perhaps ruled, by a being of incredible fragility.
THE LAST LAST CALL or PLAN 8.5. FROM OUTER SPACE: SEE incompetent Aliens! SEE The Thirsty Dead! NEVER coming to a Theatre near you!
GRINDS SLOWLY, BUT EXCEEDING FINE: In the forsaken and perhaps damned town of New Bedlam, an insomniac writer pursues a terrible hobby.
F’LIIS: First love was never so strange as it was for Tim, a young and lonely boy on the delicate cusp of adulthood.
THE UGLY BABY: In a world only slightly different than our own, It lolls in its iron bassinette, deformed in so many ways that even a mother cannot love It. Can the brother who is unwillingly Its caretaker find it in his heart to do so?
(“Blues in the Shadows,” “Jhorzia and the Dragon,” “The Marilyn Machine,” “Widow’s Walk and “The Crystaiad” all were published in On Spec. “Rita Hayworth Stalks the Night” appeared in The New Quarterly, “Pursued by a Bear” in Storyteller, “Collaboration” in Neo-Opsis; “Grinds Slowly, but Exceeding Fine” was included in the Belfire Press anthology, Courting Morpheus, and “The Last Last Call or Plan 8.5 from Outer Space” appeared in the anthology Through the Eyes of the Undead, from Library of the Living Dead Press. “F’liis” appears in print for the first time. “The Ugly Baby” was published in Descant.)
Blues in the Shadows collects for the first time the published short fiction of Canadian author Bruce Barber. These finely-crafted tales defy categorization into genre, but whether you are a fan of whimsy, fantasy, SF, magic realism, horror, or humour, you will find something here to delight and surprise you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BLUES IN THE SHADOWS: In the Arizona desert, a racist sheriff brutalizes those whom he should be protecting … but justice may lurk in the shadows.
RITA HAYWORTH STALKS THE NIGHT: An empty house. A winter night. A broken heart. An escaped murderer...
PURSUED BY A BEAR: How does Shakespeare's oddest stage-direction relate to a Halloween party in small-town Ontario? Attend the festivities and find out!
JHORZIA AND THE DRAGON: Think you've heard everything there is to know about dragons and warriors? So did the beautiful Jhorzia... until she met the beast.
THE MARILYN MACHINE: Obsessed with screen legend Marilyn Monroe, Harvey Berenger builds a magical device to bring her back from the dead, but all does not go as planned.
WIDOW'S WALK: On a house miles from the sea is a Widow's Walk and on this Walk stands a mysterious woman, while the Aurora Borealis shines far overhead.
COLLABORATION: What happens when the paths of a melancholy cyborg and a long-dead musician cross?
THE CRYSTAID: Michael enters an exotic reality which is inhabited, or perhaps ruled, by a being of incredible fragility.
THE LAST LAST CALL or PLAN 8.5. FROM OUTER SPACE: SEE incompetent Aliens! SEE The Thirsty Dead! NEVER coming to a Theatre near you!
GRINDS SLOWLY, BUT EXCEEDING FINE: In the forsaken and perhaps damned town of New Bedlam, an insomniac writer pursues a terrible hobby.
F’LIIS: First love was never so strange as it was for Tim, a young and lonely boy on the delicate cusp of adulthood.
THE UGLY BABY: In a world only slightly different than our own, It lolls in its iron bassinette, deformed in so many ways that even a mother cannot love It. Can the brother who is unwillingly Its caretaker find it in his heart to do so?
(“Blues in the Shadows,” “Jhorzia and the Dragon,” “The Marilyn Machine,” “Widow’s Walk and “The Crystaiad” all were published in On Spec. “Rita Hayworth Stalks the Night” appeared in The New Quarterly, “Pursued by a Bear” in Storyteller, “Collaboration” in Neo-Opsis; “Grinds Slowly, but Exceeding Fine” was included in the Belfire Press anthology, Courting Morpheus, and “The Last Last Call or Plan 8.5 from Outer Space” appeared in the anthology Through the Eyes of the Undead, from Library of the Living Dead Press. “F’liis” appears in print for the first time. “The Ugly Baby” was published in Descant.)
