Leda and the Swan and Other Stories

by Mike Kennedy

Overview

Read with your feet on the floor again with this anthology of seven stories and one novella.

Year 2000. Marilyn Monroe never died. Her suicide was staged. Her assassin could not go through with it. Where did she hide? Why is she back? Did America’s most glamorous woman age gracefully?
Reporter Delaney Walsh discovers America’s elite are students of a school for deception.

Watch the Hollywood Paparazzi attempt to discover the hidden past of America’s favorite actor.
Six-year-old Evan is frightened almost to the point of heart failure by Catholic School in the 1950’s.

It is senior prom night. Eighteen year-old Justin is on that tender cusp between high school and college. Travel with his unconscious mind as it attempts to merge with his waking reality.

Flight 737 is missing over the Pacific Ocean without a trace, and yet FAA investigator Eric Stroheim has found the empty plane in a maintenance hangar in San Francisco. Only women were aboard..

A novella: Escape to the Italian Alps with teenage Portia Bianchi to evade the clutches of Dictator Benito Mussolini. She takes her family fortune and a da Vinci painting, Leda And The Swan, stolen by her family in 1624 during the final charge of armored knights, in the Alpine passes on the French border.

Enter into a story with our author. The place is a cocktail party overlooking Central Park. He comes to assassinate one of his characters and afterwards must remain there in the story, hiding out. The tale is finished for Mike Kennedy and for you by another author we meet within the story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045641050
Publisher:	Mike Kennedy
Publication date:	08/15/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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Indianapolis author Mike Kennedy described by Trident Media Group, saying: Kennedy has a way with words and that readers attracted to Hemingway and Mailer will love Season of Many Thirsts (A novel brought to E-Books under the original title: REPORT FROM MALI). Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says of the manuscript: "This is a potentially important and significant novel on many levels, including formally." Little, Brown says of the novel: "Our admiration for its ambition and the energy and high-octane force it applies toward these engrossing geopolitical events. Chance and his team are memorable characters." Random House says: "Kennedy captures the strange, and intriguing world of Mali." Playwright Arthur Miller said of Kennedy: "Marilyn and I used to think there was something funny about Mike, and then we realized that he was simply hilarious."

Kennedy's message to the publishing world, "I have read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness from time to time across fifty years. During this, my most recent reading, it occurs to me that I am Kurtz and that all of you are Marlow. Kurtz lay dying in the pilot house of the river steamer. Marlow, the company agent, has found him and returns with him. Kurtz has spent years in the jungle pulling out ivory and sending it downstream. Finally, Kurtz agrees to return down river to civilization because he realizes that he has something to say, something with a value beyond his ton of treasure. Kurtz realizes that he has achieved a synthesis from out of his brutish experience. Kurtz imagines being met by representatives at each one of the string of railway stations during his return to civilization. He tells Marlow, 'You show them you have in you something that is really profitable, and then there will be no limits to the recognition of your ability.' And then, sounding as though he steps into our own millennium, Kurtz adds, 'Of course you must take care of the motives—right motives—always.' Now I see that Kurtz is Conrad. Kurtz is not unique. He is every writer. It is only Marlow, the agent, who is unique, unique in his fidelity, not just to the job, nor only to the company, but to the civilization that sent him.