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It Won't Stay Light Forever: Collected Stories
It Won't Stay Light Forever: Collected Stories
It Won't Stay Light Forever: Collected Stories
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It Won't Stay Light Forever: Collected Stories

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A wealthy old gentleman who cannot speak and a cabbie who drives him around every week share an experience that leaves the shocked cabbie with no explanation. A little boy's innocent gesture sets in motion a Sunday morning of terror. A cleaning lady's childhood artwork inspires her at a critical moment. A humiliated carpenter secretly nails his customer's front door shut. A mentally-disabled teenager tries to help a frightened child. A mysterious woman moves into a neighborhood and turns it upside-down.
These and other stories offer solid entertainment along with luminous moments of heartache, humor, fear and hope.
Nineteen stories of heartache and humor, fear and hope, devastation and survival, show people wrestling with many different situations, some strong characters, some with little power, young and old, wise or cynical or troubled, from good-hearted to crafty to cruel, all interesting, all treated with compassion and occasional irony by the author.

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Release dateJan 2, 2021
ISBN9781888215274
It Won't Stay Light Forever: Collected Stories
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Ed Weyhing

Ed Weyhing was an avid reader and writer from childhood on. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and San Diego State University, and served in the U.S. Navy. After that he was a co-founder and CEO of a computer software company. Retiring young, he was able to follow his enduring interest in writing fiction.He received his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Many of his published short stories and several new ones are contained in this volume.He is also the author of a novel, Speaking from the Heart. Until his death in 2016, he lived in Rhode Island with his wife Mary. They were the parents of three sons.

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    I received this book from a Member Giveaway here on LT. I was very pleasantly surprised by Mr. Weyhing's writing. His stories are such fun. He has a clever way of telling a story that mirrors life but with a magical twist that always grabbed me. I don't think there was one single story in the collection that did not evoke some kind of emotion from me. I truly enjoyed it and was sorry to reach the end of the book. Ed Weyhing is definitely a storyteller.

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