Wynn Parks


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The Ballad of Lucius A. Bugbee    by Wynn Parks
Price: $0.99 USD. 3980 words. Published on March 1, 2012. Fiction.

After the Civil War,Lucius Bugbee joins the Wild Irish Ramblers,a bunch of black,Texas mustangers.Broke from carousing,the lot sets out for the Frio River.When they do spot horses,a dispute arises between Lucius and the head honcho.The leader claims the lead mare;but a week later the herd is still loose.Lucius bets the leader he can corral the herd by "turning horse";if so, Lucius gets the mare.
Dancers of Epano    by Wynn Parks
Price: $1.99 USD. 6860 words. Published on February 9, 2012. Fiction.

To trap an elusive partisan leader,foreign troops lay siege to Epano,his home village.An Englishman in Epano,Reginald Jordon,plots to escape---with his secret lover---from the village's desperate and bloody defense.When the partisan dies,trying to relieve Epano,the ex-pat imagines that he can stay uninvolved as his lover,and all,dance themselves,and their children off the sea-cliffs behind Epano.
Uncle Adonis - Ladies' Man    by Wynn Parks
Price: $1.99 USD. 5760 words. Published on January 22, 2012. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Though regarded in the village as something of a roue,Uncle Adonis is the closest thing Akis has to a father.Adonis and his cafenion cronies,provide the young island boy a window onto manly ways of the world.As a child,Akis takes Uncle Adonis' reputation as a ladies' man on face value. Later, as a know-it-all university student, he learns the tragic truth behind Uncle Adonis' reputation.
Manoulis Steals a Kiss    by Wynn Parks
Price: Free! 4570 words. Published on November 5, 2011. Fiction.

(5.00 from 3 reviews)
Manoulis had been born a child of Epiphany. To the village's old women, his birth season---the season of long nights, when the old and New Year meet---placed a part of Manoulis in the company of satyrs and ghosts and other creatures of the in-between. Yet Manoulis is a kissing fool, and his obsession may reprieve his sister from the convent!

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  • Rhythm in Blue on March 16, 2011
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    Whose kid was this hanging around the port, the cafenion, or the ex-patriot parties at all hours, and secretly recording it all with such merciless clarity? Would I be surprised to know? Whoever she is, she helps immortalize the artists' colony on Paros --- good, bad and ugly --- long before the Club Med types moved in and civilized the place. There is no happy-sappy Hollywood music score to Rhythm in Blue; nor silly dance routines down at the harbor. There's a stronger rhythm in the torturous dance between Shelby and Rick as their lives sway forward and back against the blue of Aegean Greece, or a blues from Rick's American band. Rick and Shelby's story isn't just about a forbidden love affair against all odds, but an act of cultural exploration; a fulminating chapter in ex-patriot literature; at core, a why and how of the ex-patriot heart. Whoever this kid was, she knows whereof she writes. I was there too...