Closing Time And Other Threshold Stories

By Rob Vagle

The five imaginative stories in this short story collection delves into worlds and characters undergoing change. 

 

Read the mind-bending "Dreams Of Memories Never Lived," the unique and startling apocalypse in "With Wings The End," the funny and sweet "Love And The Dead In The Life Of Jack Joy Merryman," a new nation filled with turmoil in "The Unjust, Dust, And Hope," and the eternal bar of the afterlife in "Closing Time."

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dog Copilot Press
• Release date: Jun 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393528692

Rob Vagle

Rob Vagle's short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony, Heliotrope, and Strange New Worlds. He lives and writes in Tempe, AZ. He grew up in Minnesota and lived in Eugene, OR. for fifteen years. Stories and novels published by Dog Copilot Press, available wherever ebooks are sold. He drinks coffee.

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