American Love Stories

By: Indermark, Ken

Pull Up a Chair.

These are the people you already know. The old guy alone in his Barcalounger trying to dial 9-1-1 with shaking hands. A pack of lawyers and ex-cops on Harleys, carrying a friend home in a saddlebag. A vet living on the sidewalk with a dog named Mac. Two strangers stuck in a hospital room, trading war stories from their separate lives. A waitress in the Ozarks who can read a man's whole story by the hat on his head.

Nobody here is famous. Nobody's trying to be.

A Midwesterner with eight decades of living and watching and listening has put these stories down-from a jazz club on a sagging riverboat to a rest stop in the middle of nowhere where something unexpected happens in the dark. From the back roads of Indiana to the Appian Way in Rome, by way of a pizza flyer stuck to somebody's shoe.

Love shows up in all of them. Not the greeting card kind. The kind that's stubborn and a little ragged-worn, imperfect, real. The kind that gets you through a long shift, a long road, a long grief. These are American love stories, up close, personal, and without the gloss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXSM2F3K
• ISBN13: 9798253671375
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"