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  • On the Cusp of It All
    Patrick Conley
    This collection of short stories describes a variety of characters all facing transitions in their lives. Some succeed, some fail, some are left questioning their new status. However, all of these fictitious characters lie on the cusp of it all, peering over the crest of some hill into new territory. They may be stepping into worlds of knowledge or ignorance, foolishness or wis...
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  • On the Cusp of It All
    Patrick Conley
    This collection of short stories describes a variety of characters all facing transitions in their lives. Some succeed, some fail, some are left questioning their new status. However, all of these fictitious characters lie on the cusp of it all, peering over the crest of some hill into new territory. They may be stepping into worlds of knowledge or ignorance, foolishness or wis...
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    19,12 €

  • An Evening of Eternity
    Patrick Conley
    Pete and Mary find their humdrum life interrupted dramatically by a spirit from the past. All on the surface appears banal and excruciatingly normal, but this ordinary couple must grapple with questions that otherwise they would have conveniently and blithely ignored. The title suggests one of the key questions that Mary and Pete explore. How can an evening-a measure of time-co...
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    20,16 €

  • Two Quests in an Age of Uncertain Spirits
    Patrick Conley
    The two tales portray some of the problems facing many American families: bipolar bosses, unemployment, cancer, the seemingly unending hustle for money, and adolescent children coping with the meaning of the puzzling adult world. In ’67 Ford Mustangs: The Long Drives, the unemployed protagonist undergoes three journeys, including a literal trip to Hell and back. As he scours th...
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    16,06 €

  • Dialogues Among the Species
    Patrick Conley
    Adam Albright had spent his entire life winning, or so he thought. He excelled in school, won recognition as an athlete, and basked in the sunshine of popularity, especially among women. He had succeeded as a lawyer and even more so as a lobbyist. All was going well in the popular estimation. However, a select few recognized that all his success lacked something, a soul perhaps...
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    16,31 €

  • Tales of Profit, Promotion, and Even Grace
    Patrick Conley
    The two novellas in this collection both describe a world gone mad with a frenzied rush for profit and promotion, a world in which bureaucracy seemingly trumps all other considerations. The first novella, 'So, This Is It,' finds its protagonist unable to find work anywhere except in the ever-expanding government bureaucracy. Reluctantly, he finds himself employed in the Office ...
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    16,16 €

  • Two Tales for the Twenty-Twenties
    B. Patrick Conley / BPatrick Conley
    BUFFY’S BURRITOS'Illegal immigration,' 'undocumented workers'-Mike Leahy and many Americans have heard these terms every day, but for Mike, these phrases have existed mainly as vague abstractions. A chance meeting with an old high school classmate initiates a whole series of events that propel Mike past the nebulous world of abstraction into the very real and enigmatic world of...
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    12,57 €

  • The Thirty by Thirty Solution
    Patrick Conley
    Imagine a world in which work is rare, pot and booze flow freely, and no one seems to have any real concerns—at least no one other than a few elites who run the New Way. Such a world may appear to have few drawbacks. After all, robots have relieved mankind of the tedium of menial jobs, and totally mechanized armies fight the wars in distant countries; even the infantry consists...
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    16,28 €

  • Broken Families, Dreams and Hopes
    B. Patrick Conley / BPatrick Conley
    Two families, one solidly middle-class American and the other undocumented Mexican immigrants, face an uncertain future. No one’s job is safe, and no paycheck is ever guaranteed. They both live in a maelstrom of uncertainty. The rule of law has yielded to the flux of opportunism. While the O’Connell family struggles with an arrogant boss and adolescent upheavals, the Riveras co...
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    16,36 €

  • Conversations with the Living and the Dead
    B. Patrick Conley / BPatrick Conley
    Conversations with the Dead is contemporary fiction with a slight supernatural twist. Aided by his colleagues, Mary and Angelo, and supported by his wife, Mandy, Peter still finds himself nonplussed as he deals with an uncompromising administrator. Even more disturbing to Peter is a son still fighting off the demons of war. Confronted by a boss intent on firing him and a son st...
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    24,48 €

  • The Grail
    Patrick Conley / Peter Stonehouse
    Our tale of the Grail opens in the decidedly austere domain of a university archive but then expands to include a journey to far more exotic locations in Switzerland, Scotland, Ireland, Cuba, and finally the United States. Unlike some accounts of the Grail, this one adheres to a vision of the Grail as something quite tangible and real that has the potential to transform lives,...
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    14,04 €