Harvey Stanbrough: 216 books

Selected poems from Harvey Stanbrough's poetry.

This is an eclectic collection of poetry that was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 by the publisher at the time, Central Ave. Publishing. The poems here are gathered into four sections: Lessons; Tales; Complaints; and Beyond the Masks. Nothing about this collection has anything to do...

A poetry collection in the lineage of Frost, Yeats Nemerov and other writers of blank verse. Dr. Joseph S. Salemi, nationally known poet and critic, wrote, "This isn't the sort of Milquetoast treacle-and-cream you're going to hear at a West Chester reading. There's real anger in those lines,...

This 10-story collection runs the gamut from the hokey to the humorous, the wannabes to the would'a-beens, the chilling to the childish to the deadly serious. There are 8 stories from Harvey and 2 from his borderline psychotic persona, Eric Stringer. Come along for some fun.

A realistic character is just like a real human being, and the reader should be able to identify with the protagonist, the antagonist, and a minor character or two as soon as he meets them. The more quickly the reader identifies with the character, the more quickly he will become engaged in the story...

Some things are much larger and more important than the individual. A rural New Mexico boy joins the Marine Corps. These thirty vignettes, each a slice of life, a snapshot, are stories, recollections, histories and confessions. They are truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. I'll let you choose which is which.

Johnny's about to get luckier than he's ever gotten. And with the new girl in school, a leggy wonder who sends his imagination to places it's never been. When he finally gets her alone, she's even more than he hoped for. Up to a point.  

A meek, mild accountant from Cleveland finally, finally gets a break when he lands a big client for his firm. But he gets an even bigger one when he gets to Louisiana.

One moment you're on a boat on the river in the jungle about to be inserted with your friend on a mission. Two days later you'll meet the same boat at the extraction point a few klicks downriver. Then all hell busts loose.   

Mobsters, angels, a bar and a busy sidewalk. What could go wrong?   

In one possible future there is a game show called The Suicide Watch. With teen suicide rates soaring so high even the government can no longer sugar-coat them, that same government teams up with their Hollywood pals to find a way to make money out of the deal. After all, sensational beats tragic, eh?  

The beginning of a fiction should convey a sense of immediacy, a sense of urgency, that gives the reader no choice but to read the next sentence and the next and the next.

Learn to write a complete short story in 99 words or fewer. Fun, but addictive!

In this intense short story, when Basilone Thompson's fight manager dies, a new manager shows up to take his place. The Big Bass can hardly believe his good fortune. His rise through the ranks is meteoric. But is anything ever quite what it seems?