The Bundle of Snakes
By: Wes Hartley.
Publisher: WH Editions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Tall Tales
Genres: Monologues
First sentence: There were three tornadoes in a row the night that albino Norkle boy got himself born.
Description: A series of eighteen related monologues spoken by imagined residents of two rural towns in Western Tennessee which treat of the exploits of several of their most notorious and celebrated residents.   The monologues were composed  over three years in 1966-68.  Several have been published in magazines and journals before and since their collection as The Bundle of Snakes.
Notes: A series of monologues.  Kumper Gene Norkle.   Finishing Nails.   Runamok Hogs.  The Coothrain Incident.  The Azalea Bushes.  The Honeysuckle Trellis.   The New Model.   The Electric Teeth.  Stained Glass.  The Ferns.  The Snake Doctor.   Hootowls.   The Ugly Cow.  Cassandra Morgus.  Visions.  The Mule.  The Rubber Gloves.    The Bundle of Snakes.