Short Stories & Poems
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Frozen Chosin
An extract from Free Fire Zone, a collection of linked short stories by Dennis Maulsby, was released in 2016 (see book page to order the full book). Frozen Chosin received a first-place award in the 2014 Great War to End All Wars fiction contest and a first-place flash fiction award in 2020 from The American Oen Women’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition.
FRISSONS
A book of Haiku and Senyru’s
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Definition: fris·son noun frē-ˈsōⁿ – a sudden passing sensation
of excitement, a shudder of emotion.
Frissions is a poetry chapbook, featuring the author’s original cover art and twenty-six haiku, arranged by the season of the year. Twelve of these short poems have been published in national anthologies and literary journals, four of which have won awards in contests. These three line traditional poems fed the imagination, offering powerful images and ‘aha’ moments.
Click here and read along to a musical
version of Frissons.
Music by Elaine Erickson. Suzanne Lommler, mezzo-soprano,
James Poulsen, piano.
The Crow’s Story
The Crow’s Story is a new twenty-eight-page story featuring Father Patrick Donahey, hero of the book Winterset, stories of pixies, demons, and fiends. Available under separate cover.
Fearful for his safety, the good Father’s paranormal friends built him a cabin in the pine woods outside town. Stimied by his success in defeating paranormal adversaries, his spirit enemies have hired a Mafia hit team to take him out. Little do the criminal humans know that they are not just tackling Donahey but Crobeau, his witch owner, the Pooka sheriff, and a Baba Yaga outhouse.
Price: $10.00 (includes postage in the U.S. and handling)
Cave Canim! Beware of the Dog!
The cover shouts, Beware of the Dog, in six different languages. Inside twenty-six authors give you their serious and amusing observations of the family pet. Like Shakespeare said,
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and the dog will have his day
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1
Listen to Dennis reciting his poem
Omaha Beach set to music.