We should have left well enough alone
Subtitle: selected stories
By: by Ronald Malfi
Publisher: JournalStone
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781945373978; 9781945373992
Description: "A new mother is pursued by mysterious men in black. A misguided youth learns the dark secrets of the world from an elderly neighbor on Halloween night. A housewarming party where the guests never leave. A caretaker tends to his rusted relic of a god deep in the desert... In his debut short story collection, Bram Stoker Award finalist Ronald Malfi mines the depths and depravities of the human condition, exploring the dark underside of religion, marriage, love, fear, regret, and hunger in a world that spins just slightly askew on its axis.."--
Table of contents: title: The dinner party --; title: Learned children --; title: Knocking --; title: The jumping sharks of Dyer Island --; title: The Glad Street angel --; title: Under the tutelage of Mr. Trueheart --; title: The house on Cottage Lane --; title: Pembroke --; title: In a pet shop --; title: Couples seeking couples --; title: The good father --; title: The housewarming --; title: Chupacabra --; title: All the pretty girls --; title: Closing in --; title: Underneath --; title: All is calm --; title: Painstation --; title: Discussions concerning the ingestion of living insects --; title: Then there is Boston.