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Kid Stuff: The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig and Other Stories
Joe Eliseon is back with a humorous, fantastic collection of two novellas, a novelette, and two short stories, all exploring life as seen through young boys’ eyes.
The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig – A boy’s summer of baseball, model rockets, family and friends is interrupted by the sudden intrusion of ultimate evil, in the person of his best pal.
The Mystery of Ambrose Pouter – To prove himself to a smart-aleck muffin-baking girl, a brainy, young boy goes blueberry-picking on a high, rocky ledge, where he encounters his brawny rival for the juvenile femme fatale’s affection. Did he fall? Was he pushed? Or was it something too awful to believe?
The Molasses Man – In the middle of a heat wave, a slow-as-molasses handyman tempts a sickly youngster to become as slow as he is. Will the boy give in to the heat and the temptation? Or will some timely advice turn him around?
Never Tell A Rabbit To Bring A Friend – A children’s story, in which a young boy ignores his know-it-all sister’s bossy warning, feeds a wild rabbit, and learns a hard truth about multiplication.
Down The Cape – A youngster comes of age when his grandfather’s seaside summer cottage is hit by a sudden, driving gale and everything in his young life changes.
"Childhood is a gift. That gift is mostly a cleared space where it can be lived and played. Children can't clear that space. Only adults can. But you can't clear out all the lions and tigers and bears because, if you do, the kids won't have anyone to play with." -Joe Eliseon
The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig – A boy’s summer of baseball, model rockets, family and friends is interrupted by the sudden intrusion of ultimate evil, in the person of his best pal.
The Mystery of Ambrose Pouter – To prove himself to a smart-aleck muffin-baking girl, a brainy, young boy goes blueberry-picking on a high, rocky ledge, where he encounters his brawny rival for the juvenile femme fatale’s affection. Did he fall? Was he pushed? Or was it something too awful to believe?
The Molasses Man – In the middle of a heat wave, a slow-as-molasses handyman tempts a sickly youngster to become as slow as he is. Will the boy give in to the heat and the temptation? Or will some timely advice turn him around?
Never Tell A Rabbit To Bring A Friend – A children’s story, in which a young boy ignores his know-it-all sister’s bossy warning, feeds a wild rabbit, and learns a hard truth about multiplication.
Down The Cape – A youngster comes of age when his grandfather’s seaside summer cottage is hit by a sudden, driving gale and everything in his young life changes.
"Childhood is a gift. That gift is mostly a cleared space where it can be lived and played. Children can't clear that space. Only adults can. But you can't clear out all the lions and tigers and bears because, if you do, the kids won't have anyone to play with." -Joe Eliseon
187 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2020
About the author
Joe Eliseon
20 books71 followersMy name is Joe Eliseon. I write fiction about things I know. Having graduated law school, I think I know about everything.
I tend toward humor and satire. Sometimes, I veer into farce. I can detour into fantasy and romance. Occasionally, I hit a pothole of horror.
I spend most of my social media time on Twitter as "@JoeEliseon."
My debut novel, brimming with all the vim and vigor a new author can summon, is an epic comedy about the struggles of a young but long-suffering Park Avenue associate attorney: The Seamless Web: A Legal Comedy .
My sophomore novel, half farce, half fantasy, skewers love, politics and the American Way. It's D.P.W.: A Devilish Political Fantasy, about a municipal snowplow driver who makes a deal with the devil.
I sometimes indulge in nostalgia, as in my short story, The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig (available as an audio book as well as a Kindle ebook) and my fantasy novel, Mr. Lake. The former recounts the unnerving experience of a baseball-playing young sprout who insists that he's the Iron Horse come back to life. The second brings Camelot into the 1960s when a sixth-grade boy suspects his elementary school's janitor just might be the undying Lancelot du Lac. Both tales are told from the young boy's point of view in a by-gone pre-adolescent world that strongly resembles my own.
I've also published an eclectic collection of short stories entitled Five Minutes More and Other Stories, dealing with time-travel (of sorts), space-travel (of sorts), mythological fantasy and some other things that were rattling around in my head. I'm working on another collection right now.
In The Richest Man in Babylon, Revisited, I indulge in mythological economics, if there is such a thing, telling the story of a young man, Omigud, who sells himself into slavery in old Babylon in order to learn the secret of making wealth. I include profuse apologies to author George S. Clason, whose The Richest Man in Babylon inspired my story.
But my biggest project is my on-going series about a pair of lawyers, Snarkey & Putts, whose cases come from the world of the paranormal.
The introductory novelette is The Case of the Undead Arbitrator, which introduces the pair and describes what led to their peculiar legal specialty.
The second, a full novel, The Case of the Ghastly Ghostwriter, tells a tale of copyright infringement from the afterlife.
The third, The Case of the Canine's Curse, asks whether or not a real estate developer is better off as a werewolf.
The fourth, The Case of the Unchained Immigrant , is as hot as today's headlines, with Snarkey & Putts defending America against an undocumented demon from a foreign country, and all its relatives. It's so fresh and topical, I haven't published it yet. But it's coming in the summer of 2019.
All of the above can be found on my Amazon Author page.
Visit my website: h
I tend toward humor and satire. Sometimes, I veer into farce. I can detour into fantasy and romance. Occasionally, I hit a pothole of horror.
I spend most of my social media time on Twitter as "@JoeEliseon."
My debut novel, brimming with all the vim and vigor a new author can summon, is an epic comedy about the struggles of a young but long-suffering Park Avenue associate attorney: The Seamless Web: A Legal Comedy .
My sophomore novel, half farce, half fantasy, skewers love, politics and the American Way. It's D.P.W.: A Devilish Political Fantasy, about a municipal snowplow driver who makes a deal with the devil.
I sometimes indulge in nostalgia, as in my short story, The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig (available as an audio book as well as a Kindle ebook) and my fantasy novel, Mr. Lake. The former recounts the unnerving experience of a baseball-playing young sprout who insists that he's the Iron Horse come back to life. The second brings Camelot into the 1960s when a sixth-grade boy suspects his elementary school's janitor just might be the undying Lancelot du Lac. Both tales are told from the young boy's point of view in a by-gone pre-adolescent world that strongly resembles my own.
I've also published an eclectic collection of short stories entitled Five Minutes More and Other Stories, dealing with time-travel (of sorts), space-travel (of sorts), mythological fantasy and some other things that were rattling around in my head. I'm working on another collection right now.
In The Richest Man in Babylon, Revisited, I indulge in mythological economics, if there is such a thing, telling the story of a young man, Omigud, who sells himself into slavery in old Babylon in order to learn the secret of making wealth. I include profuse apologies to author George S. Clason, whose The Richest Man in Babylon inspired my story.
But my biggest project is my on-going series about a pair of lawyers, Snarkey & Putts, whose cases come from the world of the paranormal.
The introductory novelette is The Case of the Undead Arbitrator, which introduces the pair and describes what led to their peculiar legal specialty.
The second, a full novel, The Case of the Ghastly Ghostwriter, tells a tale of copyright infringement from the afterlife.
The third, The Case of the Canine's Curse, asks whether or not a real estate developer is better off as a werewolf.
The fourth, The Case of the Unchained Immigrant , is as hot as today's headlines, with Snarkey & Putts defending America against an undocumented demon from a foreign country, and all its relatives. It's so fresh and topical, I haven't published it yet. But it's coming in the summer of 2019.
All of the above can be found on my Amazon Author page.
Visit my website: h
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