Peek author Paul Beckman By Paul Beckman
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Moving seamlessly between voyeurs and Vespas Kosher soap and secret lives Peek goes from clever to heartbreaking to outright bizarre with equal dexterity It s as if Woody Allen and Charles Bukowski got your favorite uncle hammered all weekend and made him spill the family dirt in perfect flash fiction sized bites Nancy Stohlman The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories Paul Beckman s irresistible stories give us a world in which everyone thinks about sex all the time and nobody hesitates to get what he or she wants whether it s sex a last laugh before being executed or a substitute mother who ll do the complaining when your real mother has died Some of these dark ambitious stories of desire and anxiety are hilarious In others the joke is on the startled reader who has not quite anticipated how far our fellow creatures and Beckman will go Alice Mattison When We Argued All Night In stories both accessible and profound rife with humor and pathos Paul Beckman s Peek delivers Telling details nuanced themes and characters are all demonstrated here with a range that is stunning What a stellar collection this is Robert Scotellaro Measuring the Distance Paul Beckman s work is always fresh evocative and engaging and never so than in the pages of Peek I found so much to like about this collection that just a peek was impossible After reading one story I found myself immediately turning to the next Good books are hard to put down and this is a good book by anyone s measure I wish I had written so many of these wonderful pieces But the next best thing to writing a great story is reading one or two or three Michael C Keith Everything is Epic Peek author Paul BeckmanPaul Beckman finds characters who are already in interesting situations and carries you one page further and ends the story with a twist Kind of like a nice cocktail except I can have as many as I want in one sitting Peek author Paul Beckman Beckman has the timing of a comic and the heart of a tragedian His stories slip easily from the real to the fantastic the fantastic to the everyday He s the master of misdirection Yes that s the title of one of his stories He puts you into the heart of an everyday life only to show the extraordinary Peek author Paul Beckman Pretty swell collection of flash fiction My full review after I write it coming soon via a review outlet once published will update this with the link Peek author Paul Beckman
Peek author Paul Beckman By Paul Beckman |
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