Location: Peru
Member Since:
July 12, 2010
seamus o'bannion
Biography
Literary writer for 58 years. Published 30 short stories in literary magazines in period from 1994 through 2002. Democracy/anti-racism activist since the eighties. Currently write the blog W-a-a-ay Outside the Box on macro-political and macro-economic issues and write freelance articles published in internet magazines. Retired in a third world country south of the Rio Grande.
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Books
Redemption and Ashes, Book Three
by seamus o'bannion
Price:
$2.29 USD.
Words: 49,230.
Language:
English.
Published: August 6, 2010
.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Ten stories for the lover of experimental literature: a child meets puritanism; a young priest trapped in a false life; middle-aged man & trophy wife escape into a "new life"; a borderline psychotic befriends a female hippy of 15; a young woman looks for rescue in all the wrong places; a gift turns a young man inward; idealism replaced by cynicism; work frustration
turns to violent impulses.
Redemption and Ashes, Book Two
by seamus o'bannion
Price:
$2.29 USD.
Words: 52,020.
Language:
English.
Published: July 26, 2010
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Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
A collection of ten dark stories from the road less taken: a frustrated office-worker who ponders a mysterious dream; an adolescent from the inner city who falls in love with an older coworker; a woman wondering at the nightly burning cigarette in her yard in the small hours; a "Santa Claus" finds a young crack-addict; a rookie cop impresses by shooting the "blood brother" of his adolescence.
Redemption and Ashes, Book One
by seamus o'bannion
Price:
$2.29 USD.
Words: 52,190.
Language:
English.
Published: July 25, 2010
.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Seven literary short stories of the dark side of life: a philosophy professor at the edge of madness married to a woman with Alzheimers; the biography of a mafia soldier; a man whose first affair is an incestuous encounter with his beloved aunt; the story of a fifty year "affair" that lasted just one summer; the story of a man who accidentally shoots himself and whose last thought is rape.
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