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    Appearances to the Contrary, FIVE MACABRE TALES OF MISCHIEF, MAYHEM AND MIRTH
    Appearances to the Contrary, FIVE MACABRE TALES OF MISCHIEF, MAYHEM AND MIRTH
    Appearances to the Contrary, FIVE MACABRE TALES OF MISCHIEF, MAYHEM AND MIRTH
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    Appearances to the Contrary, FIVE MACABRE TALES OF MISCHIEF, MAYHEM AND MIRTH

    By Bernard Booth

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    Appearances to the Contrary... is comprised of five stories, some short, some longish. They are told in an irreverent and whimsical and sardonic tone. I didn't plan on that, as normally I am as serious as the day is long. But writing is, I have come to find, anything but normal. When you are creating characters and scenarios, you are (or at least I am), no longer yourself. Like an actor, you become the people you are portraying. Whether the story is based upon purely imaginary people, places, and events, or whether it contains a large element of truth mixed in with the fabrications, the story, to be successful, must be convincing, even in an implausible setting. Or rather, especially in an implausible setting. It is not for me to say whether these stories are successful or not. All I can say is that I thoroughly enjoyed writing them. It was a lot of hard work. They did not come easy. But worthwhile things never do. As to fact or fancy, no story is wholly imaginary, which is to say, a product of one's fancy. Most stories contain a good dollop of fact, or, if you like, history, in them. As do these five stories. As to what part of the stories are invention and what parts are truth disguised as fiction, that's something you, the reader, will have to decide for yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Booth
    Release dateOct 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310263293
    Appearances to the Contrary, FIVE MACABRE TALES OF MISCHIEF, MAYHEM AND MIRTH
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    Bernard Booth

    I have had a variety of jobs. Some were fun, or they were, if your idea of fun is having a cavity filled without benefit of anesthesia, or slamming your finger in a door. Most were not. I am essentially lazy and will put something off until tomorrow, if I can get away with it. When I am motivated, however, I will go until whatever spirit that had motivated me has been satiated, or I drop from sheer exhaustion. I was born in New England, and lived for a period in Old England. Other than that, I have lived on the East Coast while thinking how nice it would be to live on the West Coast. The list of my favorite things is too long to go into here. These are are some of my un-favorite things: taking the dog out at night and giving her a bath and giving her a poke in the ribs because she is taking up too much of the bed and reading and grunting and sweating and asking someone: "You using that?" I am a vegetarian at heart, but it is not my heart that I need to feed, it is my mouth, followed in quick succession by my stomach, both of which are dedicated meat eaters, which is to say, rabid carnivores.

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