Old Suits - Short Story Collections - E-book - ePub

If you enjoy Hemingway's descriptive narrative, you will enjoy these five intense short stories. These stories range from the rural midwest to a small town in the deep south, from the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico to the back-country trout streams of Michigan, and from there all the way to a steamy jungle in Southeast Asia. These stories will lead the reader on a rollercoaster of emotion. Come along as "Consuela" goes about her morning chores while her husband seems to be sleeping longer than usual.
In "A Shiny Life, " an elderly woman is last seen on a soggy, dreary day by two of her neighbors who are playing checkers on a porch. Maybe one of them knows her better than he lets on. A young family comes to town a few days later looking for the woman, and they're even less familiar with her than the men are. In "Bird Huntin', " a childhood friendship takes a sharp turn down a dark but necessary path and continues into "Do What's Right."In "Keep Calm & Carry On, " a sniper team is out to get the guy they've been hunting, and who's been hunting them, for several days.
Who knew trout fishing on a wild river in the deep woods of America could have such an impact on an intense, deadly sniper mission? In the title story, a writer and his dying friend travel to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, the friend's attempt to truly live just one more time. In "Training Macon, " as the blowhard Macon learns, training can take many forms, from a good old-fashioned thumping to much worse treatment - albeit treatment that will leave you smiling.
In "At the Bus Station, " a story bearing the same title as the poem on which it was based, a young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. Aren't they? Things are seldom as they seem. In "Quite a Thing, " you are dropped into a Marine Corps infantry patrol. Along with your companions, you're entering a village to the sounds of fireworks. Or maybe it's bullets.
You feel tired, fatigued, and decide to rest for a bit, as it turns out, alongside an old woman who reminds you of your mother. Nothing is all bad. And in "One Late Afternoon in Lower Alabama, " things move at their own pace and are very seldom what they seem.