David Armstrong
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If you found a box of letters written during World War II-would you read them? And what if you did and discovered an amazing story about unrequited love, betrayal, and murder in a small southern town? A young lawyer meets Emily Hodge, a 75-year-old spinster shunned by her hometown society, and can't understand why she lives such a solitary and seemingly forgotten life. But the letters she leaves for him reveal how her choices caused her to be ostracized-but...
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Charlie Hall doesn't want to leave his home and friends, but his father persuades Charlie and his mother that moving to another town where nobody knows them is their only hope for a better life. When the Halls arrive at their new home, Charlie meets a quirky teenage boy and an eccentric older couple who live across the street in an antebellum home one they claim is haunted by spirits that grant requests, once they're appeased with a gift. Charlie's...
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Range of styles and moods throughout this collection.
Collection contains everything from hard realism to the fantastical to stories bordering on science fiction.
Many stories were published recently in a literary magazine (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Baltimore Review; Mississippi Review; New South; etc.)
Many of the stories feature men and give a male perspective of the culture in which they take place
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In the Days of Lachoneus is an epic story of politics and patriotism, intrigue and murder, war and violence, love and betrayal, friendship and loyalty, believers and unbelievers, good and evil, set in the landscape of pre-Columbian Meso-America. The historical background for the story is the account in the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, of the fierce struggle to the death between the murderous counter-culture of the Gadianton Robbers...