Kiskutya - A Musician's Tale
by Robert James Tootell
Price: Free! 11490 words.
Published on February 7, 2012. Fiction.
Set within the 'corner-cafes' of Budapest and across the Great Hungarian Plain, a musician scores the preludes of loss in search of the woman who called herself 'atheist scorpion'...
Location: France
Member Since: Jan. 22, 2010
Robert James Tootell
Biography
Right then people.
Here is a list of my (very unpopular) literary efforts so far:
A Cafe in Kazimierz and other stories (Paperback, 2002)
Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (Paperback, 2008)
Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2009)
Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2010)
Selected Stories and Poems (E-book, 2011)
Five Stories for Makers of Short Films (E-book, 2012)
Luke (E-book, 2012)
Clootie's Cover (E-book, 2012)
Kiskutya (E-book, 2012)
And here are some of my favourite short stories and books:
The Three Lilies by Jan Neruda;
In a Far Distant Land, Light Breathing, In Paris, et al, by Ivan Bunin;
The Bishop, The Artist's Story, Rothchild's Fiddle, by Anton Chekhov;
Red Cavalry, The Tales of Odessa, by Isaac Babel;
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal;
Gimpel the Fool, The Cabalist of East Broadway, by IB Singer;
Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse.
Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin;
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell;
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller;
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves;
The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth;
The Red and the Black by Stendhal;
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino;
War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy;
The Drowned and the Saved, Moments of Reprieve, by Primo Levi.
Here is a list of my (very unpopular) literary efforts so far:
A Cafe in Kazimierz and other stories (Paperback, 2002)
Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (Paperback, 2008)
Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2009)
Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2010)
Selected Stories and Poems (E-book, 2011)
Five Stories for Makers of Short Films (E-book, 2012)
Luke (E-book, 2012)
Clootie's Cover (E-book, 2012)
Kiskutya (E-book, 2012)
And here are some of my favourite short stories and books:
The Three Lilies by Jan Neruda;
In a Far Distant Land, Light Breathing, In Paris, et al, by Ivan Bunin;
The Bishop, The Artist's Story, Rothchild's Fiddle, by Anton Chekhov;
Red Cavalry, The Tales of Odessa, by Isaac Babel;
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal;
Gimpel the Fool, The Cabalist of East Broadway, by IB Singer;
Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse.
Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin;
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell;
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller;
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves;
The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth;
The Red and the Black by Stendhal;
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino;
War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy;
The Drowned and the Saved, Moments of Reprieve, by Primo Levi.
Books
Clootie's Cover
by Robert James Tootell
Price: Free! 4130 words. Published on February 2, 2012. Fiction.
A few million heads are missing in Heaven. Strange scratches and signs appear all over the place. God and St Peter are forced to investigate some decidedly odd doings on the third planet and come up against Clootie, the old man of the village... Hold on to your aureoles!
Price: Free! 4130 words. Published on February 2, 2012. Fiction.
A few million heads are missing in Heaven. Strange scratches and signs appear all over the place. God and St Peter are forced to investigate some decidedly odd doings on the third planet and come up against Clootie, the old man of the village... Hold on to your aureoles!
Luke
by Robert James Tootell
Price: Free! 6050 words. Published on February 1, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Luke, and his friend the Moon, take a journey to a strange and troubling land to compete against the 'Princess' in a terrifying game of chess. A journey of discovery.
Price: Free! 6050 words. Published on February 1, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Luke, and his friend the Moon, take a journey to a strange and troubling land to compete against the 'Princess' in a terrifying game of chess. A journey of discovery.
Five Stories for Makers of Short Films
by Robert James Tootell
Price: $1.99 USD. 5520 words. Published on January 31, 2012. Screenplays.
Five stories to whet the appetite of film makers from all over the world. With the numbers of short film festivals increasing year on year, here are five unusual and thought-provoking stories which can be adapted into memorable short films. Copyright to these original stories are up for grabs.
Price: $1.99 USD. 5520 words. Published on January 31, 2012. Screenplays.
Five stories to whet the appetite of film makers from all over the world. With the numbers of short film festivals increasing year on year, here are five unusual and thought-provoking stories which can be adapted into memorable short films. Copyright to these original stories are up for grabs.
Selected Stories and Poetry
by Robert James Tootell
Price: $3.99 USD. 31850 words. Published on October 27, 2011. Fiction.
This is a collection of stories and poetry taken from various other publications in paperback and ebook forms.
Price: $3.99 USD. 31850 words. Published on October 27, 2011. Fiction.
This is a collection of stories and poetry taken from various other publications in paperback and ebook forms.
Stranger Things Than This
by Robert James Tootell
Price: $2.99 USD. 39040 words. Published on February 2, 2010. Fiction.
Collection of early stories from the author's European travels. Humour and tragedy interlaced in these tales which take the reader on a emotion-filled trip through France, Hungary, Spain and the UK.
Price: $2.99 USD. 39040 words. Published on February 2, 2010. Fiction.
Collection of early stories from the author's European travels. Humour and tragedy interlaced in these tales which take the reader on a emotion-filled trip through France, Hungary, Spain and the UK.
Krakow Stories
by Robert James Tootell
Price: $4.99 USD. 85790 words. Published on January 22, 2010. Fiction.
Two books in one - a collection of stories about the people and legends of Krakow and Poland, as well as a further collection of early stories entitled 'Stranger Things Than This'. 28 stories in total.
Price: $4.99 USD. 85790 words. Published on January 22, 2010. Fiction.
Two books in one - a collection of stories about the people and legends of Krakow and Poland, as well as a further collection of early stories entitled 'Stranger Things Than This'. 28 stories in total.