| 2 Free Short Stories Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT 
2 Free Short Stories
by Various Authors These ebooks include:- - Summer of Government Cheese by Paula Coomer (Fiction, Short Stories)
- The Chronicles of a Lost Soul by Michael Larocca (Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Horror)
Summer of Government Cheese by Paula Coomer 
- I always warn folks that Summer of Government Cheese is not your basic easy-reading collection. Some of the stories experiment with form. People get raped. Women are murdered. Some people are gay. Some are not. Some are Native American. Some are liars. Some are old. Some are suffering betrayal at the hands of those they love. Some are migrant workers. Some are intellectually disabled. Some are crazy. Some are suffering post-traumatic stress. Some are suicidal. Some are Mexican people being enslaved by American corporations. It doesn’t bother me to hold up the dark mirror. We all have that side of us, and I happen to think it’s healthy to own up to it. As they say, one way to dispel darkness is to expose it to light. - Paula Coomer.
- Paula Coomer’s fine work is characterized by a palpable sense of place as well as by a strong compassion for, indeed love for, her idiosyncratic characters. Summer of Government Cheese is rich with, tension, poignancy and surprise. Paula Coomer is a writer to watch out for. - Valerie Miner, author of After Eden and Winter’s Edge.
- Paula Coomer’s stories are as sparkling and unexpected as found pennies, with their promise of pleasure in turning the next page. - Mary Blew, author of All But the Waltz and Jackalope Dreams.
- What has charmed me for years about Paula Coomer’s stories evinces itself here in spades: her joyfully comic yet genuinely humane engagement with a fictive bus full of quirky and lovable characters; her meandering narratives that never lose their true course; and the drop-dead gorgeous lyricism that continually possesses her and transforms one-s sense of what language is and can do. - Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche-s Kisses and Anxious Pleasures.
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Summer of Government cheese – 155 pages, 14 stories (HTML)
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The Chronicles of a Lost Soul by Michael Larocca 
A collection of short stories that mix humor, horror, and American existentialism. Praise for the stories in The Chronicles of a Lost Soul: - I highly recommend it to anyone with an open mind and a love of delving into controversial subjects like good versus evil where good doesn’t always win. Read it. You’ll be glad you did. - S. Joan Popek, Midwest Book Review.
- This is a book which will certainly entertain, and which will also impress itself onto the minds of all who read it. It is compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking. It simply must be read, and treasured, and read again. - Jennifer L.B. Leese, Best Book Reviews.
- …sometimes you find a story that’s in a class all its own…I think any Sci-Fi lover will find his works quite amazing. - Kim Gaona, Kim’s Reviews.
- LaRocca is a master of English, and meticulous in his use of writing technique. His stories are passionate, almost embarrassingly personal, gripping with the vividness of detail. - Dr Bob Rich, BobsWriting.com.
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The Chronicles of a Lost Soul – 183 pages, 14 stories (HTML)
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