Switched at Birth
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 4670 words.
Published on February 6, 2012. Fiction.
Jason Mangarelli would invite Adrian Flanagan to Thanksgiving dinner, but his mother, who is familiar with the girl’s checkered past, disapproves. Perhaps it’s time Jason established his own family traditions.
Location: United States
Member Since: May 23, 2010
2 users have added this author as a favorite.
Barry Rachin
Biography
About the Author
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
Books
The Celestial Cornet
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 2250 words. Published on January 30, 2012. Fiction.
Samantha Malinowski possesses a useable range up to high F and screeches double C's for the sheer fun of it. When the high school band distributes new arrangements, the sixteen-year-old trumpeter plays through the music without missing a note. A born lead player with cast iron chops, Sam can read flyshit on toilet paper!
Price: Free! 2250 words. Published on January 30, 2012. Fiction.
Samantha Malinowski possesses a useable range up to high F and screeches double C's for the sheer fun of it. When the high school band distributes new arrangements, the sixteen-year-old trumpeter plays through the music without missing a note. A born lead player with cast iron chops, Sam can read flyshit on toilet paper!
Sanitation
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 2780 words. Published on January 27, 2012. Fiction.
Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.
Price: Free! 2780 words. Published on January 27, 2012. Fiction.
Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.
The Moribund Moose
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6250 words. Published on December 8, 2011. Fiction.
Ruth Ostrowski’s midlife crisis hadn’t arrived in the normally prescribed manner. Rather, it snuck up on her incrementally, one negligible tribulation after another; it bushwhacked her with night sweats, sent her caterwauling toward menopause and the outer rim of her twilight years. Now, compounding her inner blight, the first frost, like a silver-haired, uninvited guest, blanketed the earth.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6250 words. Published on December 8, 2011. Fiction.
Ruth Ostrowski’s midlife crisis hadn’t arrived in the normally prescribed manner. Rather, it snuck up on her incrementally, one negligible tribulation after another; it bushwhacked her with night sweats, sent her caterwauling toward menopause and the outer rim of her twilight years. Now, compounding her inner blight, the first frost, like a silver-haired, uninvited guest, blanketed the earth.
The Indigo Children
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4840 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
The Seekers of Truth commune is just a tad too left of the loony bin to ever gain traction in a straight-laced town like Brandenburg, Massachusetts. Each whacky pursuit – iridology, crystal healing, spirit channeling, divination, I Ching, dervish whirling, Tarot Cards, reflexology, séances and scrying – only pushes the loose-knit clan further to the metaphysical margins.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4840 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
The Seekers of Truth commune is just a tad too left of the loony bin to ever gain traction in a straight-laced town like Brandenburg, Massachusetts. Each whacky pursuit – iridology, crystal healing, spirit channeling, divination, I Ching, dervish whirling, Tarot Cards, reflexology, séances and scrying – only pushes the loose-knit clan further to the metaphysical margins.
Old Man, Old Woman
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 5590 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
Phyllis Half Moon, a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian, knows all the tribal creation myths. During a camping trip in New Hampshire’s White Mountains she tells her future husband the tale of Old Man, Old Woman.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5590 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
Phyllis Half Moon, a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian, knows all the tribal creation myths. During a camping trip in New Hampshire’s White Mountains she tells her future husband the tale of Old Man, Old Woman.
The Third Fairy Tale
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 8410 words. Published on November 17, 2011. Fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Ned Scoletti is travelling north on a Greyhound bus from Fort Pierce, Florida to Spaulding, Massachusetts, to visit Aunt Josie. Problem is, his mother’s identical twin sister died when Nick was just a toddler. Or maybe not.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8410 words. Published on November 17, 2011. Fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Ned Scoletti is travelling north on a Greyhound bus from Fort Pierce, Florida to Spaulding, Massachusetts, to visit Aunt Josie. Problem is, his mother’s identical twin sister died when Nick was just a toddler. Or maybe not.
A Middlemarch Reunion
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7620 words. Published on November 1, 2011. Fiction.
At his high school reunion, Glen Stottlemeyer learns a thing or two about Victorian literature and finds a soul mate.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7620 words. Published on November 1, 2011. Fiction.
At his high school reunion, Glen Stottlemeyer learns a thing or two about Victorian literature and finds a soul mate.
Leaky Pipes
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4430 words. Published on October 25, 2011. Fiction.
Bartholomew Schroeder, a recent widower and retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets, but, on a weekend excursion to Martha's Vineyard, can he mend a teenage girl's broken spirit?
Price: $0.99 USD. 4430 words. Published on October 25, 2011. Fiction.
Bartholomew Schroeder, a recent widower and retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets, but, on a weekend excursion to Martha's Vineyard, can he mend a teenage girl's broken spirit?
Hummus
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7760 words. Published on October 20, 2011. Fiction.
Seventeen-year-old Sonny Gossage is infatuated with Naomi Shamir, the Israeli woman who lives down the street. He wants romance; all she can offer is a plate of hummus and occaisional babysitting job.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7760 words. Published on October 20, 2011. Fiction.
Seventeen-year-old Sonny Gossage is infatuated with Naomi Shamir, the Israeli woman who lives down the street. He wants romance; all she can offer is a plate of hummus and occaisional babysitting job.
The Lesbian Thespian
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2350 words. Published on October 4, 2011. Fiction.
Herb Wanamaker and Kit Calhoun share a mutual disgust for the light-skinned Negro who never cleans up after her Great Dane at the dog park. For the lonely widower and lesbian actress it’s a textbook case of Jungian synchronicity.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2350 words. Published on October 4, 2011. Fiction.
Herb Wanamaker and Kit Calhoun share a mutual disgust for the light-skinned Negro who never cleans up after her Great Dane at the dog park. For the lonely widower and lesbian actress it’s a textbook case of Jungian synchronicity.
Guide for the Perplexed
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2330 words. Published on October 3, 2011. Fiction.
Ernie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman, whose background prior to coming to work at Levinsons Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery, feels that a dozen roses or first date might be a bit more appropriate.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2330 words. Published on October 3, 2011. Fiction.
Ernie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman, whose background prior to coming to work at Levinsons Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery, feels that a dozen roses or first date might be a bit more appropriate.
I & Thou
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2460 words. Published on October 3, 2011. Fiction.
Since going on birth control in middle school, Celeste has been on a bit of a lascivious tear, but all that sexual carnage is coming to an abrupt halt when she meets the Hassidic Jew.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2460 words. Published on October 3, 2011. Fiction.
Since going on birth control in middle school, Celeste has been on a bit of a lascivious tear, but all that sexual carnage is coming to an abrupt halt when she meets the Hassidic Jew.
Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 3710 words. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction.
Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.
Price: Free! 3710 words. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction.
Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.
Cupid ain't Stupid
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2830 words. Published on September 6, 2011. Fiction.
Lenny slept with Elsie McGivney, a woman so dim-witted she can't make change or hold down an entry-level job. Lenny bedded the chucklehead but got no sex in the bargain. So why is he going back for more?
Price: $0.99 USD. 2830 words. Published on September 6, 2011. Fiction.
Lenny slept with Elsie McGivney, a woman so dim-witted she can't make change or hold down an entry-level job. Lenny bedded the chucklehead but got no sex in the bargain. So why is he going back for more?
A Pee and a Poop at Midnight
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2560 words. Published on August 25, 2011. Fiction.
Calvin's Shih Tzu, Teddy, has a weak bladder and suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. The foul tempered pooch is also food aggressive. This weekend, Calvin is dragging the dysfunctional beast to a barbecue at his future in-laws.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2560 words. Published on August 25, 2011. Fiction.
Calvin's Shih Tzu, Teddy, has a weak bladder and suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. The foul tempered pooch is also food aggressive. This weekend, Calvin is dragging the dysfunctional beast to a barbecue at his future in-laws.
Nagel's Bagels
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3580 words. Published on August 11, 2011. Fiction.
There are five levels of gifted intelligence ranging from bright to profoundly gifted. One in every thirty thousand is 'exceptional', which makes Curtis Stedman, the part-time dishwasher at Nagel’s Bagels, one smart cookie!
Price: $0.99 USD. 3580 words. Published on August 11, 2011. Fiction.
There are five levels of gifted intelligence ranging from bright to profoundly gifted. One in every thirty thousand is 'exceptional', which makes Curtis Stedman, the part-time dishwasher at Nagel’s Bagels, one smart cookie!
The Fire Flower and the Bee
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2270 words. Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.
Bear wants thumbs just like his arch-enemy Man, but Heveki, the benevolent, Siberian spirit, has something else in mind.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2270 words. Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.
Bear wants thumbs just like his arch-enemy Man, but Heveki, the benevolent, Siberian spirit, has something else in mind.
The Kidnapped Bride
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4270 words. Published on August 5, 2011. Fiction.
Maddie Etheridge's train wreck of a marriage at Boston's Plaza Hotel cost forty thousand dollars. It only lasted thirteen months, which matriculates out to a hundred bucks a day not including the Samoan honeymoon, restraining order or legal fees.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4270 words. Published on August 5, 2011. Fiction.
Maddie Etheridge's train wreck of a marriage at Boston's Plaza Hotel cost forty thousand dollars. It only lasted thirteen months, which matriculates out to a hundred bucks a day not including the Samoan honeymoon, restraining order or legal fees.
Circus Maximus
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2180 words. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction.
Buddy Hazelton, chairman of the Brandenburg College philosophy department, quit his job to join the Waverly Brothers Traveling Circus. Later today, the authority on Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistic theory is being shot from cannon.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2180 words. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction.
Buddy Hazelton, chairman of the Brandenburg College philosophy department, quit his job to join the Waverly Brothers Traveling Circus. Later today, the authority on Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistic theory is being shot from cannon.
Bodacious Bimbos
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2960 words. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction.
Helen Garfunkel, an unemployed reference librarian, is contemplating a romantic tryst with a hotdog pushcart vendor.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2960 words. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction.
Helen Garfunkel, an unemployed reference librarian, is contemplating a romantic tryst with a hotdog pushcart vendor.
The Reluctant Bigamist
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7900 words. Published on June 28, 2011. Fiction.
Mickey Pisludski wears a chain of armor piercing, machine gun shells around his thick neck. The week after his Army discharge, he bored the quarter-inch holes in the soft, brass casings, later threading the bullets together on a length of rawhide. Like so many gold, sharks teeth, the shells fanned out across a khaki T-shirt with a gash under the left armpit.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7900 words. Published on June 28, 2011. Fiction.
Mickey Pisludski wears a chain of armor piercing, machine gun shells around his thick neck. The week after his Army discharge, he bored the quarter-inch holes in the soft, brass casings, later threading the bullets together on a length of rawhide. Like so many gold, sharks teeth, the shells fanned out across a khaki T-shirt with a gash under the left armpit.
A Room without a View
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7630 words. Published on June 23, 2011. Fiction.
Thirteen-year-old George Weiner is in love with Sade Richardson, whose father beleives Negroes deserve reparations. A Room without a View - it’s Romeo and Juliette with an ethnic twist.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7630 words. Published on June 23, 2011. Fiction.
Thirteen-year-old George Weiner is in love with Sade Richardson, whose father beleives Negroes deserve reparations. A Room without a View - it’s Romeo and Juliette with an ethnic twist.
Twin Souls
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6010 words. Published on June 14, 2011. Fiction.
Mavis Calhoun, who works at the Shop Rite Supermarket, believes that she and Harry Wong Smith are twin souls. She shared this intimation with the teenager recently in a mad gush of esoterica and Harry, too smitten with her infuriating loveliness, could hardly disagree.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6010 words. Published on June 14, 2011. Fiction.
Mavis Calhoun, who works at the Shop Rite Supermarket, believes that she and Harry Wong Smith are twin souls. She shared this intimation with the teenager recently in a mad gush of esoterica and Harry, too smitten with her infuriating loveliness, could hardly disagree.
Narcissus and Goldberg
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2000 words. Published on May 5, 2011. Fiction.
Beatrice Goldberg doesn't much like Hispanics, biker broads, Franciscan monks, skinheads, or even salt-of-the-earth blue collar types, but she is going to get a double dose of all of the above, when she visits Our Lady of La Salette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2000 words. Published on May 5, 2011. Fiction.
Beatrice Goldberg doesn't much like Hispanics, biker broads, Franciscan monks, skinheads, or even salt-of-the-earth blue collar types, but she is going to get a double dose of all of the above, when she visits Our Lady of La Salette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
The Herb Gatherer's Disciple
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2280 words. Published on April 29, 2011. Fiction.
The Evers clan resemble something out of Appalachia where families keep their own counsel and rancid laundry piles high as the treetops.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2280 words. Published on April 29, 2011. Fiction.
The Evers clan resemble something out of Appalachia where families keep their own counsel and rancid laundry piles high as the treetops.
107 Degrees Fahrenheit
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 5740 words. Published on April 15, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart
Price: $0.99 USD. 5740 words. Published on April 15, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart
A Work in Progress
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4230 words. Published on April 11, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Tawana Saunders is writing the great American novel. Problem is, six months into the project, she’s only got a rough draft plus three lousy paragraphs.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4230 words. Published on April 11, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Tawana Saunders is writing the great American novel. Problem is, six months into the project, she’s only got a rough draft plus three lousy paragraphs.
Failure to Launch
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3010 words. Published on April 4, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Fred Linden, who just celebrated his silver wedding anniversary, is fixing his daughter, Alison, up on a blind date. The meddlesome hospital administrator won't settle for anything less than wedding bells and rice.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3010 words. Published on April 4, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review) Fred Linden, who just celebrated his silver wedding anniversary, is fixing his daughter, Alison, up on a blind date. The meddlesome hospital administrator won't settle for anything less than wedding bells and rice.
The Way Station
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3420 words. Published on March 25, 2011. Fiction.
Clarice Copparelli intends to seduce Jason Devlin. The seventeen-year-old boy had sensed this from as far back as a year ago, when he started doing odd chores for the middle-aged, single woman. He just doesn’t know when or how or where it will occur or the likely circumstances. Soon, he hopes.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3420 words. Published on March 25, 2011. Fiction.
Clarice Copparelli intends to seduce Jason Devlin. The seventeen-year-old boy had sensed this from as far back as a year ago, when he started doing odd chores for the middle-aged, single woman. He just doesn’t know when or how or where it will occur or the likely circumstances. Soon, he hopes.
Plato's Chainsaw Massacre
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2410 words. Published on March 18, 2011. Fiction.
(1.50 from 2 reviews)
Miranda Rasmussen, who tends wild flowers and read Greek philosophy in her spare time, just got her pretty hands on a fourteen-inch Poulan chainsaw. Now, if someone would only show the sylphlike blonde how to use the damn thing!
Price: $0.99 USD. 2410 words. Published on March 18, 2011. Fiction.
(1.50 from 2 reviews) Miranda Rasmussen, who tends wild flowers and read Greek philosophy in her spare time, just got her pretty hands on a fourteen-inch Poulan chainsaw. Now, if someone would only show the sylphlike blonde how to use the damn thing!
Bawdy Bodies
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published on March 17, 2011. Fiction.
Every woman Ernie Summers ever dated had a fatal flaw, which is why he is taking an indefinite sabbatical from the opposite sex. Well, maybe not.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published on March 17, 2011. Fiction.
Every woman Ernie Summers ever dated had a fatal flaw, which is why he is taking an indefinite sabbatical from the opposite sex. Well, maybe not.
An Indecent Proposal
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3360 words. Published on March 4, 2011. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
Ralph Tucker is dating a woman who wears Orvis, genuine hornback crocodile belts. If the romance blossoms, he’s going to need a second job.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3360 words. Published on March 4, 2011. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review) Ralph Tucker is dating a woman who wears Orvis, genuine hornback crocodile belts. If the romance blossoms, he’s going to need a second job.
An Indecent Proposal
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 5440 words. Published on March 3, 2011. Fiction.
Ralph Tucker is dating a woman who wears Orvis, genuine hornback crocodile belts. If the romance blossoms, he’s going to need a second job.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5440 words. Published on March 3, 2011. Fiction.
Ralph Tucker is dating a woman who wears Orvis, genuine hornback crocodile belts. If the romance blossoms, he’s going to need a second job.
Bawdybodies.com
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4660 words. Published on February 14, 2011. Fiction.
(2.67 from 3 reviews)
Every woman Ernie Summers ever dated had a fatal flaw, which is why he is taking an indefinite sabbatical from the opposite sex. Well, maybe not.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4660 words. Published on February 14, 2011. Fiction.
(2.67 from 3 reviews) Every woman Ernie Summers ever dated had a fatal flaw, which is why he is taking an indefinite sabbatical from the opposite sex. Well, maybe not.
The Chiropractor's Assistant
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 98600 words. Published on February 7, 2011. Fiction.
Epistemology - When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
Price: $0.99 USD. 98600 words. Published on February 7, 2011. Fiction.
Epistemology - When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
Fun with Dick and Jane
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2230 words. Published on February 1, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Dick wants fun. He has no dog. He has no cat. No Spot. No Puff. But he has a plan. See Dick board the plane. See Dick fly away. Far, far away. Hello happiness! Goodbye Jane
Price: $0.99 USD. 2230 words. Published on February 1, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Dick wants fun. He has no dog. He has no cat. No Spot. No Puff. But he has a plan. See Dick board the plane. See Dick fly away. Far, far away. Hello happiness! Goodbye Jane
Gandhi's Goat
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 5840 words. Published on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.
Price: Free! 5840 words. Published on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.
Small Favors
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on January 20, 2011. Fiction.
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Marcie Callahan’s parents run around the house in their underwear. They belch and fart and do all sorts of gross and disgusting things. The Callahan clan doesn't have a stitch of class, culture, brains or social graces. Which is why Marcie is ready for a change.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on January 20, 2011. Fiction.
(4.50 from 2 reviews) Marcie Callahan’s parents run around the house in their underwear. They belch and fart and do all sorts of gross and disgusting things. The Callahan clan doesn't have a stitch of class, culture, brains or social graces. Which is why Marcie is ready for a change.
Sextillions of Infidels
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3500 words. Published on January 7, 2011. Fiction.
(1.00 from 1 review)
Hazel and Jorani are stranded in the boondocks of Maine with a broken-down car and ton of teenage angst.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3500 words. Published on January 7, 2011. Fiction.
(1.00 from 1 review) Hazel and Jorani are stranded in the boondocks of Maine with a broken-down car and ton of teenage angst.
Kissing Cousins
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 79840 words. Published on January 4, 2011. Fiction.
Small Favors - Marcie Callahan’s parents run around the house in their underwear; they belch and fart and do all sorts of gross and disgusting things. They don't have a stitch of class or culture or brains or social graces. Which is why Marcie is ready for a change.
Price: $0.99 USD. 79840 words. Published on January 4, 2011. Fiction.
Small Favors - Marcie Callahan’s parents run around the house in their underwear; they belch and fart and do all sorts of gross and disgusting things. They don't have a stitch of class or culture or brains or social graces. Which is why Marcie is ready for a change.
Supermarket Sadhu
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6260 words. Published on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Seventeen year-old Fanny Jackson, who works aisle three at the ShopRite market, wants to become a twenty-first century mystic – a supermarket Sadhu.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6260 words. Published on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Seventeen year-old Fanny Jackson, who works aisle three at the ShopRite market, wants to become a twenty-first century mystic – a supermarket Sadhu.
Six Catholics and an Atheist
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4080 words. Published on December 6, 2010. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
In an increasingly hedonistic universe, Kirsten Hazelton clings to her Catholic faith. But can the hospital discharge planner hold her own when Dr. Wong, an osteopath at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, confronts her with his own extreme beliefs?
Price: $0.99 USD. 4080 words. Published on December 6, 2010. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review) In an increasingly hedonistic universe, Kirsten Hazelton clings to her Catholic faith. But can the hospital discharge planner hold her own when Dr. Wong, an osteopath at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, confronts her with his own extreme beliefs?
The Reticent Storyteller
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 4490 words. Published on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Parker Salisbury is dating a girl with the social graces of a cigar store Indian. So why is he giving Lilly an engagement ring later this evening?
Price: Free! 4490 words. Published on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Parker Salisbury is dating a girl with the social graces of a cigar store Indian. So why is he giving Lilly an engagement ring later this evening?
A Key to Paradise
by Barry Rachin
Price: $1.99 USD. 56560 words. Published on November 18, 2010. Fiction.
NaNoWriMo 2010 book. Last updated 2010-11-19 16:36:49
Price: $1.99 USD. 56560 words. Published on November 18, 2010. Fiction.
NaNoWriMo 2010 book. Last updated 2010-11-19 16:36:49
Goal reached!
Grace Paulson’s train wreck of a personal life takes a turn for the better when the elementary school teacher meets a gifted artisan whose handmade jewelry boxes are featured at the local museum. Well-versed in nineteenth century Russian literature, Carl Solomon also happens to be the school janitor.
Legal Procedures
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on November 16, 2010. Fiction.
Phoebe’s Aunt Janet, who has been married six times, is advising her niece on affairs of the heart. Good Luck Phoebe!
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on November 16, 2010. Fiction.
Phoebe’s Aunt Janet, who has been married six times, is advising her niece on affairs of the heart. Good Luck Phoebe!
The Unfinished Face
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3720 words. Published on November 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Dora's face, an aesthetic work in progress, exuded an unfinished blankness - as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager handful of details.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3720 words. Published on November 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Dora's face, an aesthetic work in progress, exuded an unfinished blankness - as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager handful of details.
The Prize
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3840 words. Published on October 26, 2010. Fiction.
Alexis Hamilton’s love life closely mirrors the comedy of errors in the E.M. Forster classic, A Room with a View. But where the fictional heroine, Lucy, elopes to Italy with her lover, it remains to be seen whether the Wellesley College graduate can pull off a romantic happy ending.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3840 words. Published on October 26, 2010. Fiction.
Alexis Hamilton’s love life closely mirrors the comedy of errors in the E.M. Forster classic, A Room with a View. But where the fictional heroine, Lucy, elopes to Italy with her lover, it remains to be seen whether the Wellesley College graduate can pull off a romantic happy ending.
Tulipwood
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6220 words. Published on October 17, 2010. Fiction.
Kendra Ryder just gave fifteen year old Frankie Dexter a slab of fresh-cut tulipwood along with the advice, "When you’re feeling bad, just scuff the wood with 120-grit sandpaper, grab a whiff and you're guaranteed to feel a whole lot better!”
Price: $0.99 USD. 6220 words. Published on October 17, 2010. Fiction.
Kendra Ryder just gave fifteen year old Frankie Dexter a slab of fresh-cut tulipwood along with the advice, "When you’re feeling bad, just scuff the wood with 120-grit sandpaper, grab a whiff and you're guaranteed to feel a whole lot better!”
The Abode of Infinite Compassion
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on October 4, 2010. Fiction.
Marty Humphrey has trouble finishing things. He just dropped out of college, and previously, a European backpacking adventure was abruptly cut short, when he became morbidly homesick on the flight across the Atlantic. Maybe the mystic-minded Rose O'Donnell can help Marty sort things out.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on October 4, 2010. Fiction.
Marty Humphrey has trouble finishing things. He just dropped out of college, and previously, a European backpacking adventure was abruptly cut short, when he became morbidly homesick on the flight across the Atlantic. Maybe the mystic-minded Rose O'Donnell can help Marty sort things out.
Thyroids, a Love Story
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3210 words. Published on September 29, 2010. Fiction.
(1.00 from 1 review)
Can two young lovers with thyroid conditions - one in traditional therapy, the other holistic - find happiness together?
Price: $0.99 USD. 3210 words. Published on September 29, 2010. Fiction.
(1.00 from 1 review) Can two young lovers with thyroid conditions - one in traditional therapy, the other holistic - find happiness together?
Mustard Fields
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6840 words. Published on September 21, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Maddie Timberland just read A.E. Coppard’s The Field of Mustard. She plans to reread the sublimely beautiful story over a bottle of wine and then find a lover like the rustic gamekeeper, Rufus Blackthorn, to share her bed. The middle-aged woman already has someone in mind.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6840 words. Published on September 21, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Maddie Timberland just read A.E. Coppard’s The Field of Mustard. She plans to reread the sublimely beautiful story over a bottle of wine and then find a lover like the rustic gamekeeper, Rufus Blackthorn, to share her bed. The middle-aged woman already has someone in mind.
Still Virgin
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 2030 words. Published on September 14, 2010. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
A year out of high school, Clarissa, who couldn't even score a date for the senior prom, is into tantric sex, Pablo Neruda and orgasms bordering on divine rapture. And she's still a virgin!
Price: $0.99 USD. 2030 words. Published on September 14, 2010. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review) A year out of high school, Clarissa, who couldn't even score a date for the senior prom, is into tantric sex, Pablo Neruda and orgasms bordering on divine rapture. And she's still a virgin!
What Would Junie B. Jones Do?
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4460 words. Published on September 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
"Mr. Jacobson smells little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation. The family had just sat down to the evening meal. Grace Carter poured some gravy on her mash potatoes, cleared her throat and asked, "Where exactly did you learn this?"
Price: $0.99 USD. 4460 words. Published on September 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) "Mr. Jacobson smells little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation. The family had just sat down to the evening meal. Grace Carter poured some gravy on her mash potatoes, cleared her throat and asked, "Where exactly did you learn this?"
Simple Hearts
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Published on September 1, 2010. Fiction.
Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza on Federal Hill, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times literary section. He wants a date with Marna Copparelli. Good luck, Luther!
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Published on September 1, 2010. Fiction.
Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza on Federal Hill, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times literary section. He wants a date with Marna Copparelli. Good luck, Luther!
No More Piano Lessons
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6260 words. Published on August 19, 2010. Fiction.
Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by one of her bratty kids bursting in unannounced. Lost time was never recouped on the back end of the lesson, and once, the music teacher even took a cell phone call and it wasn't an emergency. So unprofessional!
Price: $0.99 USD. 6260 words. Published on August 19, 2010. Fiction.
Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by one of her bratty kids bursting in unannounced. Lost time was never recouped on the back end of the lesson, and once, the music teacher even took a cell phone call and it wasn't an emergency. So unprofessional!
The Loveliest Girl
by Barry Rachin
Price: $4.95 USD. 90840 words. Published on August 12, 2010. Fiction.
Dora’s unassuming face, an aesthetic work in progress, exudes an unfinished blankness, as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager handful of details.
Price: $4.95 USD. 90840 words. Published on August 12, 2010. Fiction.
Dora’s unassuming face, an aesthetic work in progress, exudes an unfinished blankness, as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager handful of details.
The Divined Comedy
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6850 words. Published on August 5, 2010. Fiction.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart where, when business is slow, she reads Soren Kierkegaard and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines ( __ __ ) and one solid ( _____ ). Not a good omen!
Price: $0.99 USD. 6850 words. Published on August 5, 2010. Fiction.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart where, when business is slow, she reads Soren Kierkegaard and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines ( __ __ ) and one solid ( _____ ). Not a good omen!
Emergence
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 8140 words. Published on July 30, 2010. Fiction.
Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, is discovering that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8140 words. Published on July 30, 2010. Fiction.
Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, is discovering that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.
No Bear, No Forest
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6170 words. Published on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, just struck out on both counts.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6170 words. Published on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, just struck out on both counts.
Call of the Beguiled
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7190 words. Published on July 1, 2010. Fiction.
Cheryl Oliphant doesn’t do well in social situations. The fourteen year old girl’s best friend, Nicolena, is a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. On the plus side, Cheryl just met Teddy Rasmussen who offered her a sympathetic ear plus an inch-thick slice of apricot, sour cream loaf.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7190 words. Published on July 1, 2010. Fiction.
Cheryl Oliphant doesn’t do well in social situations. The fourteen year old girl’s best friend, Nicolena, is a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. On the plus side, Cheryl just met Teddy Rasmussen who offered her a sympathetic ear plus an inch-thick slice of apricot, sour cream loaf.
Two Pockets
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 7420 words. Published on June 24, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
According to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sake was the world created,’ and in the left: ‘I am dust and ashes.’
Price: Free! 7420 words. Published on June 24, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review) According to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sake was the world created,’ and in the left: ‘I am dust and ashes.’
Heathcliff
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 6530 words. Published on June 17, 2010. Fiction.
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.
Price: Free! 6530 words. Published on June 17, 2010. Fiction.
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.
Epistemology
by Barry Rachin
Price: $0.99 USD. 7410 words. Published on June 17, 2010. Fiction.
When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7410 words. Published on June 17, 2010. Fiction.
When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
The Cross-eyed Gypsy
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 6680 words. Published on June 10, 2010. Fiction.
A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen Sony Trinitron TV. The arrival of a Russian Jew in the apartment complex where she lives resolves the matter of the ’hot’ TV while opening another can of existential worms.
Price: Free! 6680 words. Published on June 10, 2010. Fiction.
A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen Sony Trinitron TV. The arrival of a Russian Jew in the apartment complex where she lives resolves the matter of the ’hot’ TV while opening another can of existential worms.
Just like Dostoyevsky
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 5280 words. Published on June 1, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Sylvia Mandelstam boasts what a wonderful time she had at the international literary symposium in Moscow. Truth be told, the trip was an unmitigated fiasco not unlike her marriage and personal life. She can lie shamelessly and dissemble to everyone - even Danny O'Rourke, the unassuming mason who arrives one summery day to repair her damaged brick wall. But not indefinitely.
Price: Free! 5280 words. Published on June 1, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Sylvia Mandelstam boasts what a wonderful time she had at the international literary symposium in Moscow. Truth be told, the trip was an unmitigated fiasco not unlike her marriage and personal life. She can lie shamelessly and dissemble to everyone - even Danny O'Rourke, the unassuming mason who arrives one summery day to repair her damaged brick wall. But not indefinitely.
A Trip to Tanglewood
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 4320 words. Published on May 28, 2010. Fiction.
Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?
Price: Free! 4320 words. Published on May 28, 2010. Fiction.
Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?
A Waltz Yes, a Heart No
by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 5520 words. Published on May 27, 2010. Fiction.
Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are his options visa vie the pallid, five year old boy whose damaged heart beats in three-four time?
Price: Free! 5520 words. Published on May 27, 2010. Fiction.
Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are his options visa vie the pallid, five year old boy whose damaged heart beats in three-four time?
The Misfit Motel
by Barry Rachin
Price: $4.95 USD. 89980 words. Published on May 23, 2010. Fiction.
A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen Sony Trinitron TV. The arrival of a Russian Jew in the apartment complex where she lives resolves the matter of the ’hot’ TV while opening another can of existential worms. The Misfit Motel is a collection of quirky, short stories about people trying to make a go of it in a decidedly user-unfriendly universe.
Price: $4.95 USD. 89980 words. Published on May 23, 2010. Fiction.
A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen Sony Trinitron TV. The arrival of a Russian Jew in the apartment complex where she lives resolves the matter of the ’hot’ TV while opening another can of existential worms. The Misfit Motel is a collection of quirky, short stories about people trying to make a go of it in a decidedly user-unfriendly universe.
Barry Rachin’s tag cloud
craetive writing
creative
creative fiction
creative prose
creative writing
fiction
fiction prose
friendship
ghandi
humor
humor philosophy
inspiration
judaica
literary
literary fiction
literary prose
literature
love
love stories
love story
minority issues
modern fiction
music
mysticism
nevel
new age
philosophy
prose
pysycology
religion
romance
short fiction
short stories
short stories creative fiction literary prose
short story
short story literature
spiritual
spirituality
stories
story
tales
war
womens fiction
womens issues
writing