Swing Shorts: Stories and Wonders
By Tam Francis
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Music & Dance ~ Life & Love ~ Body & Soul
The oldest stories ever told
When an enthusiastic and talented mom auditions for a dance troupe, she finds unexpected discrimination and inequality at every step.
All-girl colored band clarinetist, Korla, knows the police sirens are coming for her. Can she escape the Jim Crow Sheriff in time to play the USO show before he and the young deputy figure out what else the girls are hiding?
After the perfect date in jazzy WWII San Francisco, an American boy searches for his Japanese girlfriend after the government orders all Japanese-Americans to an internment camp.
Perceptions are skewed by hot swing rhythms in Night Club Feet. A vintage girl pines for a married dancer while a newbie guy lusts after her, each encumbered by ego and self-image.
In 1943, too many men had enlisted or been drafted, leaving empty spots in the big band orchestras. Can seventeen-year-old ingénue, Moira, pass the audition, keep her too friendly bandleader at bay, and snatch one of the coveted positions in the all-girl band?
A young couple becomes sidetracked by the musicians who play hot jazz alongside the petting zoo of piglets, ducks, and lambs on the family jaunt to the feed store.
Will the bereaved young woman find the perfect place her mother told her about without being diverted by a mysterious handsome man and the swing music emerging from the hotel cantina where she stopped for the night?
Those are just a few Swing Shorts that explore the transformative, transcendent, and often poignant bond we share with music and dance.
Find your connection.
Tam Francis
Tam Francis writes vintage romantic fiction and has taught swing dancing with her husband for fifteen years. She is an avid collector of vintage patterns, vintage clothing and antiques. She has published, contributed to and been Editor-in-chief for two indie magazines – “From the Ashes” (Arts & Literature in the Greater Phoenix area 1990-1994) and “Swivel: Vintage Living” (swing dancing and vintage lifestyle culture 1994-2000).Tam has also been a poet (two-time, National Poetry Slam city finalist, Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Art Walk Featured Poet, New Times Feature Poet, Visual Voices Featured Writer) and short story writer (two-time finalist for Scare the Dickens Out of Us contest). And finally blogger and novelist. She began blogging her dance adventures years ago on Myspace, but started her novel when her husband shipped out for Iraq and she was alone with two small children.She is currently querying agents for The Girl in the Jitterbug Dress, finishing the sequel The Girl in the Jitterbug Dress Hops the Atlantic, and is in printing production of a short story collection: Ghostoria: Vintage Romantic Tales of Fright.She now lives in a 1908 home in Lockhart, Texas, which is not only the BBQ capital of Texas, but has the oldest, continuous working library in the state.
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