Pork Chops and Applesauce: And other tales from a deranged mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544198453)

This collection of 9 short stories explores the human side of everyday people. These people are extraordinary not for what happens to them, but for who they are. They face their daily struggles with fear and dread, but a resolve to keep pushing forward. From the life of a depressed house wife in "Pork Chops and Applesauce" to the annoyed Ghost Writer trying to inject life into Death's autobiography in "Death on a Stick" these are ordinary people faced with the extraordinary trials each of us face every day. "Pork Chops and Applesauce" is a slice of life look at a typical family dinner. "Bigfoot in my Backyard" presents every parent's worst nightmare as a mother tries to adjust to a new life in the Pacific Northwest. "Make Right What She Made Wrong" explores a woman coping with the guilt of killing a baby lizard in her shower on a typical weekday morning. "Death on a Stick" follows a ghost writer asked to write Death's memoirs for him. "Ralph Asks His Wife to Come Home from Holiday" I don't know what to say about this one... it is just kinda weird yet compelling. Like a wreck you just can't look away from. "Lenin's Head" follows a teenager who finds Russian Leader Vladamir Lenin's head in a jar for sale at a local garage sale. "Five Eastern, Six--Thirty Central (TV Time)" looks at a post apocalyptic world where everyone is too busy watching TV to even notice that the world ended. "A Valentine Story: To Honey Power With Love" follows a college co-ed struggling to find herself at Brigham Young University when her ecclesiastical leaders don't understand her feelings of pain and she turns to extreme measures to affect her pain.

Author: Kevin R. Peterson
ISBN-10: 1544198450
ISBN-13: 9781544198453
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2017
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.30d