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Keep your seat belts strapped. No dozing off. This isn't that kind of place. The stories in this debut collection will grab hold of your imagination, and they won't let go. Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, they take readers from the county fair to the suburban home to the Boy Scout camping trip, flipping each stopping point on its head. Every story begins and ends with one voice, and each contains a mystery or turn of events that shocks, entertains, frightens -- and usually all of the above. A remarkable combination of unexpected tenderness, deep sensitivity, and a fascination with the darker side of domesticity, this collection marks the introduction of a literary voice that will echo in your head long after ...
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Keep your seat belts strapped. No dozing off. This isn't that kind of place. The stories in this debut collection will grab hold of your imagination, and they won't let go. Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, they take readers from the county fair to the suburban home to the Boy Scout camping trip, flipping each stopping point on its head. Every story begins and ends with one voice, and each contains a mystery or turn of events that shocks, entertains, frightens -- and usually all of the above. A remarkable combination of unexpected tenderness, deep sensitivity, and a fascination with the darker side of domesticity, this collection marks the introduction of a literary voice that will echo in your head long after you close the pages.

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This debut collection reveals a playwright's fondness for edgy, frightening setups. Chapman who got his start as a playwright at the age of 12 and later honed his one-man act at the International Fringe Festival takes as his form of choice a sort of transliterated monologue. This ingenious device diverts at first, but few of these vignettes they're not quite "stories" progress beyond establishing a bizarre or ironic situation, and many read like half-cooked campfire yarns. There are some clever sketches demonstrating what the others might have become with a lighter touch and more polish. The unholy carnival of "Rodeo Inferno" is enjoyably creepy, and "Second Helping," about a pack of Cub Scouts run feral, is gleefully gruesome. But the book is marred by heavy-handed language, as in "Honey Well Hung," which attempts a symbolic conflation of chicken coops and a frustrated, infertile farm couple, yielding such regrettable moments as "Couldn't tell you how many times I pecked away at her, hoping to crack into that yolk." The premises can also be predictable and cumbersome: in the title story, a man who last saw his little girl at a rest stop with his car keys months ago can't figure out the odor coming from his trunk: "I know she's close. God, sometimes I can almost smell her, she feels so close." Actors, spoken-word enthusiasts and camp counselors in search of rough-edged material will enjoy this, but short story lovers should look elsewhere. (Feb.) Forecast: Sales may see a bump in the New York area, as publication coincides with the opening of Chapman's off-Broadway play. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Short stories in the form of monologs are nothing new, but Chapman's first collection of 20 makes the form seem so. In the title story, a father waits for his daughter at the rest stop where she disappeared months before. In "Pool Witch," three boys dare to scale the highest water slide. Their objectives: to toss the lifeguard in before their own glorious descent. In "Spoonfed," a story with unsettling overtones, a 16-year-old boy relates how he cares for his younger handicapped sister, and in the powerful and tragic "And the Mothers Stepped Over Their Sons," a woman narrates the loss of her asthmatic soldier son as she searches for his body in a field of dead young men. Chapman has been writing since the age of 12 and performing his monologs in the United States and abroad for many years. Amazingly, he manages to squeeze character, plot, setting, and background into each. There is nothing corny or cute, labored or false; instead, there is bold, honest realism. For contemporary short story collections. Mary Szczesiul, Roseville P.L., MI Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786886340
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 2/12/2003
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 5.18 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Rest area 1
Fox trot 9
The pool witch 17
The wheels on the bus go 25
Spoonfed 33
Chatterbox 43
Michelle 49
Second helping 57
And the mothers stepped over their sons 65
Honey well hung 73
Johnny pumpkinseed 81
The man corn triptych 85
Correspondence of corpses 103
Off-season spirits 111
Poor man's mermaid 119
Bladder companion 129
A step off from fathering 137
Milking cherry 147
Rodeo inferno 163
It goes rickety 171
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    Posted November 1, 2007

    Wow.

    I saw the first short in here (Rest Area) preformed by Chapman as a monolog - it was great. And he keeps your attention with every story. It's always something new and creepy and fun and twisted. I couldn't put it down.

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