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	• Monterey Shorts Byron Merritt; Chris Kemp; Mark C. Angel; Shaheen Schmidt; Walter E. Gourlay Thunderbird Press, 2002 - 248 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

 

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This book displays a wealth of talent

This is the first collection of stories from the Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula (FWOMP).

This book proves that there is a wealth of talent hidden away in the Monterey Peninsula. Well, not hidden away for long, I hope. Most of these short stories drew me in immediately. These stories are like moments of time plucked from Monterey life, be it future or past, science fiction, suspense or life lesson fiction. This book is a delightful and diverse read.

Of the 10 stories included here are some of my favorites:

The Lizard Catcher, by Lele Dahle
Like being a pre-teen girl is not traumatic enough?

Borscht in the Bay, by Ken Jones
An amusing mystery. It has all the signs of becoming a series. Watch out for this one.

Resurrected, by Chris Kemp
I really enjoyed the writing style of this author. A mother and daughter rekindling their relationship, but with a twist.

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A Great Gift - Sure to Please!

The authors of Monterey Shorts let their imaginations go wild with amazing characters and marvelously creative plot twists.  Monte-Ray Gunn by Byron Merritt is a science fiction comedy of the craziest kind set in the year 3000!  The Monterey Intergalactic Aquarium? A black blob that lives in a coffee cup?  A Xenophobic cop that acts, and talks, like a Sam Spade character?  ... Chuckle away.  I did.  In A Flash of Red Frances Rossi creates a more serious mood as she shares the healing process of a woman who has experienced every woman's worst fear through a parable set in Pacific Grove ... where 'things' are not always as they seem.  Shaheen Schmidt's A Place to Heal presents the Peninsula as most of us know it, a refuge where relationships matter more than competing in the corporate rat race.  Mike Tyrrel views the world from a charming perspective in Dot's Dad Visits Dinosaur Town where adults are timid and unsure, and children comfort and know all the correct answers. In Borscht in the Bay, Ken Jones' engaging cast of characters (mysterious visitors, a seasoned and frustrated cop, a lovable busybody...) play a soft-peddled game of cat and mouse around beautiful Pacific Grove. I want to read more about the adventures of these characters!    Mark Angel entices the reader to take a deep breath and go under the ocean waves with his divers in Mortuary Beach where his cleverly crafted story entertains and instructs on the high and low points of this challenging sport.  Isn't hot tubbing supposed to be relaxing?  Not if the hot tubs could tell your secrets!  Pat Hanson's imaginative tale in If the Tubs Could Talk gives a voice to hot tubs at a local spa!  The supernatural theme really takes off in Chris Kemp's Resurrected where family members with special powers deal with relationship challenges we ordinary folks face!  Lele Dahle exquisitely crafts a story that shares the impact of a childhood friendship and a loss of innocence with the reader.  In the lead story, "Reunion", by Walter E. Gourlay, a university professor returns to 1943 and finds his lost love waiting for him at the Soldier's Club at Fort Ord. A romantic time-travel - or is it a ghost story with metaphysical overtones of lost love and wasted lives? This beautifully written story kept me riveted until its startling end This collection says 'good bye' to boring, worn out formulas that we've all read a million times! A great gift that offers a story to please every taste

 

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RebeccasReads recommends MONTEREY SHORTS as an entertaining & eclectic collection offering enchantment & wisdom.

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Welcome to the Monterey Peninsula you thought you knew, or imagined you did.

Where skin divers, burned out businessmen, Carmel Valley farm kids and middle class families rub shoulders with ghosts, Russian fugitives, homicidal maniacs and doppelgangers.

Where Dinosaur Town is just a midnight ride away.
Where the hot tubs talk to each other.
Where aliens threaten to overrun the human populace - in the future, at least.
Yeah. That Monterey Peninsula.

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