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Bestselling author of The Divine Farce and The Love Song of Monkey, Michael Graziano has created a striking collection of short stories which offers a rare glimpse into the evolving mind of a young writer.
Unfiltered by nostalgia or hindsight, these stories are drawn from work created between the ages of eleven and twenty-five and explore a wide and often unsettling range of themes—war, love, violence, humor, and the strange contradictions of growing up.
The pieces trace a jagged path of creative and psychological development. Graziano with his usual flare, challenges the comforting myths about innocence, progress, and what it means to mature. This collection invites readers to reconsider childhood not as a simpler time, but as a complex and often misunderstood state of being.
LIST OF STORIES
1. Granad’s
2. The Brownies of Wrath
3. The Wolf Who Cried Zucchini-Potato
4. Sixth Grade
5. No Escape
6. Impingement on Serenity
7. The Explosion Bird
8. Peacewall
9. The Good Schoolboy
10. The Adventures of Mr. Peabody
11. Cold Spring Morning
12. Morgue’s Funeral Parlor
13. Birth
14. Impressions on the Subway
15. The Secret meeting
16. A Window of Opportunity
17. The Edge of a Party
18. A Well-Mannered Husband
19. Silent Night
20. The Extraordinary, Earth-Shattering Life and Adventures of Mr. Samson
21. The Story of Ben Flora
22. Just a Walk
23. The Archetypal Graziano Self-Imposed Loner
24. Herbie the Great
25. The Warming
26. The Aftermath of the Concert
27. The Secret of Contentment
28. A Woven Basket
29. Nocturne
30. Buffalo Blizzard, Faulkner Style
31. A Dog What’s Got Brains
32. Fragments from Childhood
33. Killing Mozart
34. Music
35. The Ankylosaurian Way
36. A Skeletal Cannibal Improves His Popularity
37. Africa
38. Seduction
39. Diving in the New York Harbor
40. Raining
41. The Enemy with the Hat
42. Early Darkness
43. The Middleclass Life
44. Holiday
45. Aunt Vicki