A Chasing After Wind: A Collection of Speculative Fiction Short Stories [NOOK Book]

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A man sits shrouded in darkness within a nearly abandoned coffee shop. A few customers linger as a cold wind blows outside. He listens to the tales told within while sipping a spiced chai. For some, these stories would be dismissed as fanciful science fiction or mere fantasy, but for him, they are all too real.

A reflection escapes from a mirror: he could believe it.

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A Chasing After Wind: A Collection of Speculative Fiction Short Stories

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Overview

A man sits shrouded in darkness within a nearly abandoned coffee shop. A few customers linger as a cold wind blows outside. He listens to the tales told within while sipping a spiced chai. For some, these stories would be dismissed as fanciful science fiction or mere fantasy, but for him, they are all too real.

A reflection escapes from a mirror: he could believe it.

When the clock strikes midnight, obesity will become a felony; is a pill that can melt fat in mere moments the only solution? This man knows the answer to that question all too well.

The immortality of a stunt man nears its end at a saloon in the Superstition Mountains. Yes, he'd heard that tale before.

A wish to look thin is taken all too literally? He knew the dangers of wishes.

Is a world-famous pianist's career worth the price of a pinky? If he only knew the prices he would pay when this all began.

What could someone accomplish without the need to sleep, by switching back and forth between two bodies? All too much; far, far too much.

The telling of these stories unlocks uncomfortable truths, and a confrontation that changes everything.

A Chasing After Wind is not just a short story collection; another story surrounds the telling of these stories. Discover contemporary stories that walk the border between science fiction and fantasy, where moments of humor emerge from tragedies. Is this struggle in vain, a chasing after wind? Or does everyone deserve a second chance?
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940014608459
  • Publisher: Marc Drummond
  • Publication date: 7/12/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 605 KB

Meet the Author

Marc Drummond lives in Woodbury, Minnesota, with his wife, Rita. Their cocker spaniel adores Rita, while their cat tolerates Marc as long as he feeds her promptly each and every day at the times she specifies by yowling. They enjoy watching episodes of Friends, getting together with friends and family, taking walks through their neighborhood, catching a movie now and then, and visiting Disney World. Marc and Rita look forward to meeting their daughter when she is born.

When Marc graduated from Hastings High School in Minnesota, and he gave a valedictorian speech, one of his fellow students—who had surgically replaced his canines with vampire teeth—leaned over and said, “That guy’s weird.”

Just before graduating from Albion College in Michigan, with a Bachelor’s degree in English, a concentration in public service, summa cum laude, with Honors, Marc threw the college’s president in his pool.

Marc has also earned degrees in web design and graphic design from Minneapolis and Community Technical College. He turned projects in his classes into a website with which he proposed to his wife.

By day, Marc does web and graphic design. By night, he sleeps.

You can find him on Twitter (@MarcDrummond), where he often tweets about responsive web design, the Drupal content management system, all things Apple, and other assorted forms of geekery. He posts on his blog, marcdrummond.com, about similar things, but with many more words. Feel free to encourage Marc’s behavior by saying nice things about this book wherever you bought it or by telling a friend about A Chasing After Wind. Or, if you didn’t like it, wait, I just ran out of room, so I guess I can’t offer any suggestions about that situation.
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    Clearly the best thing since a bread knife. Although I have no knowledge of the author or his motivations, I can say how much I've enjoyed this whole experience. I look forward to more...

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