Tight Shorts: Diverse Short Stories

By Brian K. Crawford

Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, includingThe Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lot of time provide an overview of a lifeColby - An explorer pushes the limits of what can be learned of life and death - and the space betweenThe Visitor - A look at travel in the coming age of energy shortagesA Connecticut Yankee in King Neptune's Court - How did a Union dog tag come to be found in a Confederate submarine?Sibyl - What of us will survive after we are gone? Only our houses - and their thoughts?The McKinley Cut - What might have happened when President McKinley came to Marin County to ride the Crookedest Railroad in the World.An Occurrence in the Indian Ocean - Some old seamen never die - but they should have.Tango Uniform - Life and death in a WWII destroyerThe Siren of the South - The little-known story of the female Confederate blockade runner

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460946995
• ISBN13: 9781460946992
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"