I have just published 16 Short Stories, titled: Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit.

Titles are:

1: Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit: A 33-page Romp, multi-chaptered, beginning in a School Yard, including Joan of Arc, a Treehouse, and many permutations…

2: Terrorism: A 15-page Story about marriage, family life, aspirations, and cheating, set during the Munich Olympics, hence the title.

3: Deja Vu: 7 Pages. About a trip to the Country to resurrect a failing marriage, about a man’s total love for his thirteen-year-old daughter.

4: Looking For Gold: 22 pages of tragi-comic scenes from a failing marriage. Has it all, sex, drama, farce, even has a Harley bike …

5: Births, Deaths, and Marriages: 14 Pages of jousting, repartee, resolution and hope.

6: Luck: 26 pages: Begins: Aldo’s getting married. For the third time. That’s a lot of marriages, I know, but Aldo’s had bad luck…

7: Porridge: For Raymond Carver: A 10 Page tribute to the writer who taught, Write about what you know best. And what do you know better than your own life? Then he added: Though none of my stories ever happened.

8: Cats and Trains: 20 pages of scenes from the lives of people in an Apartment Block. Main Characters: Mr. and Mrs. Mal Function

9: Something Awful: 12 pages of howling, from a dog and a man trying to change a tap washer…

10: Blücher’s Nose: 13 pages: Academia is to knowledge, as Prostitution is to Love…

11: On Men Who Jog In Dog Parks: 14 pages of philosophy, music, and a man’s love for his dog.

12: Coda: a 10-page tribute to Anton Bruckner: a Love Story.

13: The Lawn Mower: 28 Page Turner. A couple – a nurse and a painter – move to the country. He learns how to paint again, they learn how to love again.

14: White Flag, A Day in the Life of Thomas X: 22 pages of notions and platitudes of a man who has come to accept that old age is a bucket of shit.

15: The Barrel: 6 Pages: Scenes from a holiday in Shangri La.

16: Mother Tongue: The Life and Times on The Good Ship Mathias, who sometimes wishes he was on the Good Ship Lollipop. It ends where Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit begins…

The book is available online, and Melbournienas can order it from Benn’s Bookshop, Bentleigh.