Months and Seasons
Finalist in the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Collection Award
“Exceptionally entertaining and thought-provoking!” —Raging Bibliomania
“A polished gem from a gifted artist” —critic Grady Harp
Months and Seasons is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks’s award-winning The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea. With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous playwright who faces a firestorm consuming the landscape, a reluctant man who attends a Halloween party as Dracula, and a New Yorker who thinks she’s a chicken.
“Christopher Meeks’s quirky stories are lyrical and wonderfully human. Enjoy,” says Sandra Tsing Loh, author of A Year in Van Nuys.)
Editorial Reviews
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“Poetry and short story collections are two of the hardest writing to sell. With this collection, Christopher Meeks proves there’s an audience for short stories.” –Gary Roen, Midwest Book Review
“Meeks heightens his comedy with a dash of heartbreak–the closer we are to heartbreak, the more we laugh.” –Steven Allred, The Short Review.
“With this newest collection of compelling short stories, Meeks teaches us to learn what we already know.” –Diana Raabe, The Raabe Review
“The stories in MONTHS AND SEASONS are like potato chips; you can’t read just one.” Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews
“Full of complete randomness and quirkiness, ingredients I cherish, the stories in this twelve-story collection chronicle the eccentricities of an array of diverse characters who are dealing with the life thrown at them in the only way actually possible: by dealing with their problems, not escaping them.” –Rachel Dufor, Rebecca’s Reads
From the Back Cover
“If the object of art is to capture the reality of the human condition one glimpse at a time, then Christopher Meeks succeeds gloriously. His stories are delightful and heart-rending, surprising and eerily familiar–chronicles, all, of the epic battles fought by ordinary characters one day at a time.” –author Gina B. Nahai, Caspian Rain
More About the Author
Biography
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