Subversives: Short Stories

by Frank J. Frost

An American in southern France decides to steal an olive tree from a neighbor's field... A traveling salesman orders just one martini before dinner in a roadside restaurant... A couple makes an illegal U-turn on the autostrada... A henpecked senior citizen buys a share in a small-town western whorehouse... In ordinary life, ordinary people might get away with little indiscretions like these. Not so in the zany, existential stories of Frank Frost, a master of haywire, roller-coaster fiction. These stories are full of dire and hilarious consequences.

Some of the stories in Subversives are surreal, like episodes of "The Twilight Zone." Others depend, like the stories of Roald Dahl, on the nasty little secrets of the human heart. But they are all about ordinary people who tip over the dominoes because they can't leave well enough alone.

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001