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Troubling Tales
Troubling Tales
Troubling Tales
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E W Farnsworth's long and short literary tales are designed for the thinking reader who is not satisfied with stock plots and themes. ‘River Tale’, a Novella, combines three stories about romance growing in spite of an outbreak of radical Islamism in the Virginia Piedmont. Three other tales, about a ghostbuster called Mr. Geister, take varying perspectives on extinguishing vengeful spirits in North Carolina, Arizona and Massachusetts. Jewel-like shorts include the micro-vignette of a biker girl’s placing flowers at the place where her biker friend’s electrocuted body was found under a power-line derrick. Most troubling in the collection is ‘The Blood Closet’, the tragic story about the anguish of abiding by external requirements for UNISEX bathrooms in a middle school. Two disturbing, factual episodes from Virginia and California are blended in this fictional work wherein complex issues are presented, but not resolved.

E. W. Farnsworth lives and writes in Gilbert, Arizona, USA.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLulu.com
Release dateJan 29, 2018
ISBN9780244964955
Troubling Tales
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E W Farnsworth

E. W. Farnsworth lives and writes in Arizona. Over two hundred fifty of his short stories were published at a variety of venues from London to Hong Kong in the period 2014 through 2018. Published in 2015 were his collected Arizona westerns Desert Sun, Red Blood, his thriller about cryptocurrency crimes Bitcoin Fandango, his John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume I, and Engaging Rachel, an Anderson romance/thriller, the latter two by Zimbell House Publishing. Published by Zimbell House in 2016 and 2017 were Farnsworth’s Pirate Tales, John Fulghum Mysteries, Volumes II, III, IV and V, Baro Xaimos: A Novel of the Gypsy Holocaust, The Black Marble Griffon and Other Disturbing Tales, Among Waterfowl and Other Entertainments and Fantasy, Myth and Fairy Tales. Published by Audio Arcadia in 2016 were DarkFire at the Edge of Time, Farnsworth’s collection of visionary science fiction stories, Nightworld, A Novel of Virtual Reality, and two collections of stories, The Black Arts and Black Secrets. Also published by Audio Arcadia in 2017 were Odd Angles on the 1950s, The Otio in Negotio: The Comical Accidence of Business and DarkFire Continuum: Science Fiction Stories of the Apocalypse. In 2018 Audio Arcadia released A Selection of Stories by E. W. Farnsworth. Farnsworth’s Dead Cat Bounce, an Inspector Allhoff novel, appeared in 2016 from Pro Se Productions, which will also publish his Desert Sun, Red Blood, Volume II, The Secret Adventures of Agents Salamander and Crow and a series of three Al Katana superhero novels in 2017 and 2018. E. W. Farnsworth is now working on an epic poem, The Voyage of the Spaceship Arcturus, about the future of humankind when humans, avatars and artificial intelligence must work together to instantiate a second Eden after the Chaos Wars bring an end to life on Earth. For updates, please see www.ewfarnsworth.com.

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