Paradigms and Curbside Boxes

The Cheap Stories series #2

by Richard Weems

The Cheap Stories series--short eBooks, cheap as hell.2 short "Paradigms" and Curbside Boxes." In one, the teleportational qualities of potbelly pigs makes for problems in the local economy, while in the other, a persnickety mailman who refuses to deliver to one house in a uniform housing development makes the couple in question feel like outcasts in their own society.Stories for a song! (Literally!)Richard K. Weems (www.weemsnet.net) is also the author of Anything He Wants, winner of the Spire Fiction Award and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize. He lives and teaches in New Jersey."Richard Weems' surging dialogue and rhapsodic narrative guide us through the humorous, albeit damning, interactions of people who are just like us. Confused, inspired, and sad, his characters are working to change their lives but are frustrated by both the every-day and the highly unusual. Detailed introspections are delivered through original prose, unlike anything I've ever read. Don't read him if you want the norm. His voice is part of an underground, cutting edge group of writers who are making wild changes to the way literature is created and enjoyed."-Camille Renshaw, former Editor of Pif Magazine"A pleasure to read, a pleasure to inhabit...Extraordinary work by a writer about whom too little is known."-Frederick Barthelme"Richard Weems is a big, generous, weird guy whose stories too are generous and weird. Weems is going to get weirder with time, and more generous and more large, and he will be fun to read."-Padgett Powell

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 23, 2011

About the author

Richard Weems is the author of Anything He Wants, winner of the Spire Fiction Award and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, as well as the collections Stark Raving Blue and From Now On, You're Back. He is also the author of the Cheap Stories eBook series. His stories have appeared in North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Other Voices, The Mississippi Review, and other publications.