Bøger af Theresa Griffin Kennedy

The anthology, Beyond Where the Buses Run: Stories, represents a compilation of six writers' visions of what can happen in a life. The writers' include Meagan Bejar, Robert Crane, Joe Coyle, Christopher Fryer, Kari Hildebrand, and Theresa Griffin Kennedy. The stories share the directions we go in, how we touch one another, how we hurt each other, and all while engaged in the sometimes lonely, sometimes frightening journey traversing a uniquely American landscape. The stories also contend with the natural world, fantasy, symbolism, and present other possible puzzles for the reader to unfurl. The tone, point of view, stylistic variations and delivery are all uniquely different and provide the reader with a broad sampling. The fiction stories contend in one form or another with the ways people cope with change and what is seen, unseen, or even intentionally hidden from our closest loved ones, or from ourselves. Finally, the stories take on with what it means to be human in a harsh and exacting world, becoming what one critic has referred to as a collection which offers "a special kind of American loneliness and quiet desperation."

Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story is a dark, sexually riveting and comical account of how some people come to grips with long repressed rage that can present itself later in life. Daisy Rose Butterfield has a name, a job and a life she seems to hate, and a trove of long-held secrets. Then one typical overcast Portland day a Prince Charming arrives to fix the toilet. Tab Hunter Blaine is everything Daisy has avoided all her life - he's older, he never attended college, and he works as a grade school custodian, a job he hates. He's also gorgeous and accommodating and acts as dynamite to Daisy's slow burning sexuality. But Tab brings his own baggage in the form of an estranged wife, Ruby and his girlfriend "on the side," Verona. This doesn't cause Daisy much concern, until Ruby and Verona get wind that Tab might be cheating on them. That's when the fun starts. Can sex heal you, even when it's all wrong? Can sexual obsession morph into love? Can you survive the sexual abuse you experienced as a child? And can you survive when your past, present and future collide one chilly, Talionic night in Portland?

In this collection of five short stories Theresa Griffin Kennedy's characters are sharply insightful and as damaged as they are intriguingly complex. Jolting the reader into regular double takes, "Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories," gives an authentic, place based portrayal of some of Portland's less privileged inhabitants.