Adventures and Advice: Short Stories

by Dick Snyder

Overview

Taking time to reflect on life and those incidences that make up memories, teach lessons and instruct…they all can be thought of as short stories. I sort through various lessons, celebrate good moments, and remember that humor is far more engaging than preaching. This collection emerged from random thoughts, numerous quirks, and wistful memories. Sometimes, one finds truth in those.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823037730
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	11/21/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	398 KB

About the Author

Dick Snyder b. Taft, 1937. St. Mary’s Grammar School. TUHS ‘55. Taft College ‘57. Completed B.S. University of Colorado (1961) and PhD. History (1966). He wrote professional articles about William S. Culbertson (International Trade Commission) and Edward P. Costigan (U.S. Senator from Colorado), and edited a collection of essays on JOHN F. KENNEDY (Scholarly Resources,1988). Retired as Chair, Department of History and Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2001. He returned to California in 2003. After retirement, he published two e-books (AMAZON): JIM RICHARD: LIFE OF FIRSTS (2009) and A FAMILY’S PASSAGE (2011). He followed those with an autobiography BOOMERANG (2015). He became interested in writing mystery and published a collection of short stories: THE JONAS KIRK MYSTERIES (2017). Subsequently, he published three Jonas Kirk novellas: BINGO (2018), PUMPKIN FEST (2019), and MARQUEE MURDERS (2019). He then explored the dark side of university collegiality. WHY SHE WEPT (2021) features faculty enmity, academic rivalries, transgender revelations and ultimately a death, for which three persons each believe themselves responsible. FOR A WOMAN (2022), traces the efforts of two high school classmates, Bobby Banfield and Trey Thaxson, to rejuvenate the performing career of another, Shontel Williams. They are White. She is Black. Financing is difficult. Accessing the mob is helpful, but easy money becomes a coin hard to swallow. They persist… motivated by love and a lust for power.