Short Stories: Twenty-One Excursions to the Edge of Chaos and Love
By Van Devender
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Excursions is a collection of twenty-one short stories whose characters’ life journeys will lead them to the edge of chaos—---the place where permanent transformation occurs ---and where love is often found. Join me as we…
Risk everything on a wilderness search for The Box and the precious treasure within;
Share the perplexing trials of an exotic young man on a mission to dispense mercy;
Witness the outcome of villagers offering their worship to a misshapen stone;
Follow the desperate attempts of an oppressed minority to flee their dying planet;
Sit with the Senior Director of Human Resources as he interviews a peculiar applicant for the position of Corporate Messiah;
Hear the unspoken fears of an equities broker facing the collapse of the financial markets;
Dine at the country club with two business associates proposing very different plans;
Enter the death row cell of an inmate on the night of his execution;
Eavesdrop on the conversation between two chronically ill people—---one old, one young;
Sit with a fan whose team has finally made it to the NCAA football championship game;
Take a once-in-eternity chance at winning The Prize;
Watch firemen desperately battle a pre-dawn fire in a block of row houses;
Join two frustrated trash men stalled at a blocked railroad crossing while their load of garbage bakes in the summer sun;
Take a pre-dawn ride with two men engaged in true religion;
Share brunch with a Broadway star trying to woo a reluctant agent to her cause;
Discover the fate of a harassed and ailing pornography distributor;
Go fishing on an autumn evening with a small-town boy and his special little sister;
Learn the life- and- death decision of a grieving widow;
Stand in line behind Willie Gene Johnson as the bank refuses to validate his parking ticket;
Get behind the mic with a talk radio host trying to boost ratings with edgy topics; and
Rock along with an elderly couple whose mailbox has disappeared in the high grass of their uncut lawn.
As our characters speak and act, I hope you’ll see how decisions made on the edge of chaos may define your soul and shape your destiny as well.
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