The Sewing Machine and Other Stories - Paperback
The Sewing Machine and Other Stories - Paperback
Description
by Michael Massee (Author)
Humor, suspense, crime, and mischief abound in this highly imaginative collection of nine short stories and two novellas. As in his first book, Grandpa Gets a Tattoo and Other Stories (2025), Michael Massee's page-turning stories are rich with unexpected turns, red herrings, and surprise endings.
A mysterious visual disturbance leads to a missing person, then to a shocking revelation. One sewing machine changes three lives-first for an abandoned Mormon wife, then for a talented teenage boy, and finally for a girl in an oppressive Indian boarding school. Difficult questions are asked: How do we relate to a neighbor with an intractable mental illness? Is "mercy killing" ever justified? What if we could choose what happens when we die?
In "Affliction," a crusty, old-time newspaperman meets a warehouse clerk beset by messages from beyond, a midlife crisis, and a very overbearing mother; they team up to solve two mysteries-and along the way reinvigorate their own lives. This collection also serves up a sitcom actor with delusions of grandeur, a teenage Christmas prank gone wrong, a neighborhood murder mystery, crime-fighting birds-and a Great American Novel you can finish in only eight minutes!
Massee's stories are by turns poignant and witty, thoughtful and irreverent, displaying his flair as a natural storyteller.
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