The Sculpture Gardener: Short Fiction

By Hal Howland

"Cities," winner of an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, reminisces about a lifetime spent living in and visiting great cities around the globe. In "Evidence," a middle-aged actor remembers two former girlfriends, opposites in every way, who presumably still own photographs of him naked. "The Grand Tour" follows a small-time nineteen seventies crooner and his disparate bandmates on a hilarious American road trip. "The Hijacking of the Dave Mandarine Band" examines what happens when a greedy nightclub owner and a dishonest musician cannot leave bandleading to the bandleader. "Karla in the Closet" follows a lesbian's high-school sweetheart through two stunning reunions that span four decades. In "Keeping Score," a brilliant young math student has an affair with her English professor and offers him a novel way to remember her and her predecessors. "La bataille des bandes" tours the world with a successful French Beatles tribute band that refuses to speak English. "Minton and Mistral" is a tragic love story about two conjoined twins. In "Out of Sequence," a telekinetic tourist wreaks havoc on Key West's technocratic music scene. "Perils of Paris" follows the misadventures of an accident-prone teenager. In "The Sculpture Gardener," a Key West arts administrator turned call girl describes a sensual afternoon with her first client, a respected artist who had sat on her organization's board of directors. In "Second Thoughts," a young woman serving thirty years for killing her husband on their honeymoon discusses the crime with her new cellmate. In "Watching His Language," a CIA analyst whose career spans the Cold War adopts a ridiculous method to stop swearing in the workplace. And much more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JVLBTZX
• ISBN13: 9798689517919
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"