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Chasing Eleven
Chasing Eleven is a multi-genre collection of short stories by award-winning author Dan M. Kalin.
Stories Include:
- Witch Simona thinks the president might be under an evil curse
- Virgie can’t understand why doors are being closed in her face
- People in the family die, after taking a road trip with Auntie Lu
- Timothy has a frustrating life only cake can improve
- Dave wants to visit long-lost cousins but receives strange signals
- Lucas wants nothing more than to be a long-haul trucker (and serial killer) until a higher calling beckons
- Even sorcerer Silver needs to settle into a new home
- Frustrated author Leo searches for new ways to market his books
- Brian finds new ways to finance elective surgical procedures
- Linguist Annie Richardson discovers a puzzling artifact within all human minds
- Breakfast and a tall tale with one of the last Oklahoma dust bowl refugees
Dan M. Kalin remains an author, recovering engineer/Mensan, inventor, and occasionally-retired management consultant living large in Melbourne, Florida.
Stories Include:
- Witch Simona thinks the president might be under an evil curse
- Virgie can’t understand why doors are being closed in her face
- People in the family die, after taking a road trip with Auntie Lu
- Timothy has a frustrating life only cake can improve
- Dave wants to visit long-lost cousins but receives strange signals
- Lucas wants nothing more than to be a long-haul trucker (and serial killer) until a higher calling beckons
- Even sorcerer Silver needs to settle into a new home
- Frustrated author Leo searches for new ways to market his books
- Brian finds new ways to finance elective surgical procedures
- Linguist Annie Richardson discovers a puzzling artifact within all human minds
- Breakfast and a tall tale with one of the last Oklahoma dust bowl refugees
Dan M. Kalin remains an author, recovering engineer/Mensan, inventor, and occasionally-retired management consultant living large in Melbourne, Florida.
216 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2020
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May 20, 2021
The stories in Chasing Eleven are intriguing and never dull. Readers with a taste for different genres have a pretty good shot at being pleased and probably more than once or even twice. Dan Kalin used much gallows humor and the plot twists seem to generally work and make the reader want to continue to see where the story might be going. Kalin uses both straight description and some elements of the poetic description style and they seem to work. The stories are clever and the reader needs to keep an open mind for these strange signals. Readers who love the single-author short story collection will likely enjoy this work. Some of the stories are a bit out there and I would recommend an adult audience for Kalin's book. As a matter of fact, I would even suggest that readers enjoy this book during the evening or nighttime hours. This is no story for the breakfast table. It's for after hours which is when most good times and mischief happen.
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