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Short stories and poems by Robert Motley, who grew up in the Heckscherville Valley in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania stories: a traumatic first day at school, a temperance tale by a loving elderly aunt, the death of a miner in his bootleg coal hole, a beloved retarded man who fantasized that he was a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees, disgruntled cricket hunters who disrupt the opening night of a minstrel show, a man who took his stepchildren to visit an orphanage.
Other stories: an aborted affair between an expatriate Irish woman and her former fiancee, a CEO's desperate efforts to save her failing internet company, a man's fantasies triggered by his appearance in a student film, a fiftieth high school reunion where everyone appears to be a stranger.
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Troubles ordering? Email the author at motley31@yahoo.com.
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On the left: cover showing the author and his father, a miner, in front of the hoist car for a bootleg mine.
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HOW TO ORDER: in Princeton, Micawber and U Store have copies, iUniverse:call or use the internetOrder from a bookstore such as Barnes & NobleOrder from amazon.Two or more copies are shipped free.
About the author:
Robert Motley, born and raised in a small mining community in Pennsylvania, near Pottsville, studied Physics at Penn State and Princeton. Until his retirement he worked at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as an experimental physicist. For the past few years he has written short stories.
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