Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN-10: 1622881893
Type: Fiction
Pages: 129
Copyright: March 16, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781622881895
"From the ruins of a Soviet nuclear facility emerges an epiphany about the global violence’s source in the human heart. With satirical and lyric virtuosity, Mayo conjures an essential wonder: 'we were connected to things we could scarcely imagine.'"
Sharona Muir
Author of Invisible Beasts
This is the latest (March 2018) collection of short stories by critically acclaimed writer Wendell Mayo.
Excerpt
In anticipation of Siberian spring, Herbie ended Tuesday Parka Nights. Business was good. People kept coming, and brought family and relatives. Herbie’d trained customers well. We scarcely saw the Bishop in the dining room to clear dishes. Eventually, Herbie hired a couple high school kids from nearby Tontogany to celebrate, taught them to dance a rudimentary
hopak, dressed them suitably, and had them perform on weekends. Whitehouse was transformed, no longer a place of retirees, pensioners, social security and disability checks, of old Crown Vics and pickups few could afford to repair. We were lovers, revolutionaries, toughened by winter, warmed by necessity in our hearts, passions that burned all the more because once a week all winter we’d been literally freezing in Trotsky’s. Dead revolutionary Russia had breathed new life into Whitehouse...
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
Helios is an award winning novel about a brilliant inventor of new technology, a fallen CEO seeking redemption, and an idealistic youth who comes of age in corporate America.
