A Box Of Shorts: A Collection of Short Stories

by Michael (Mike) Proko

Born and raised just outside Chicago, Mike Proko grew up in an atmosphere that would make any seasoned writer jealous. Man, what a list of characters!! Priests. Politicians. Mobsters. Union bosses. Actors. Poets. Drunks. The high-lifes and the low-lifes. Strangers that would give you the shirt off of the back and relatives who would cheat you outta your last nickel. He learned at a young age that the people that you were supposed to look up to were the ones that you should look out for and that sometimes the bad guys were the good guys. Included is a collection of stories by MLProko ranging from a love story to a political thriller, from a soldier that kills for an underworld boss to a sardonic look at a town that time seems to have forgotten; from a story about the love between a father and daughter to a golfer who seems to have put his dreams on hold. Mike's attention to character detail is precious and each story feels like a mini-movie. [mikeproko.com]

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2011