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The Spare Husband and Other Stories

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Some of Angus Brownfield's collection of nineteen short stories are told with tongue in cheek and some acknowledge the regret that comes of learning through sobering experience. One narrator is faintly hysterical, another trying to avoid the rat race that looms in front of him by reliving his hot-rodding youth in an automobile that's beyond his rusty skills. There's a variety of styles and lengths ... Read more

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Some of Angus Brownfield's collection of nineteen short stories are told with tongue in cheek and some acknowledge the regret that comes of learning through sobering experience. One narrator is faintly hysterical, another trying to avoid the rat race that looms in front of him by reliving his hot-rodding youth in an automobile that's beyond his rusty skills. There's a variety of styles and lengths
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The Hummus Dealer of Meknes, a short story

by Angus Brownfield ...

Mustapha is young and unmarried. He works diligently, preparing and selling hummus from a stall in the medina. One day Annisa, a newcomer to Meknes, offers him a proposition: marry her and she will share with him her secret recipe for outstanding hummus. She is nearly old enough to be his mother and he dreams of a young bride who will give him many sons. Naturally he declines. Soon Annisa, who ... Read more

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Mustapha is young and unmarried. He works diligently, preparing and selling hummus from a stall in the medina. One day Annisa, a newcomer to Meknes, offers him a proposition: marry her and she will share with him her secret recipe for outstanding hummus. She is nearly old enough to be his mother and he dreams of a young bride who will give him many sons. Naturally he declines. Soon Annisa, who
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4 Autumn Haiku

by Angus Brownfield ...

This completes the cycle of haiku-like poems begun last winter with Winter Haiku. ... Read more

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This completes the cycle of haiku-like poems begun last winter with Winter Haiku.
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Tec, A Short Story

by Angus Brownfield ...

Till Dimas, San Francisco police detective, attributes his uncanny sense of smell to an Apache ancestor. His partner, Felix ("Dude") Durand, will never forget the homicide case Till solved in record time relying in large part on his sensitive nose. Closing the case leaves the partners to consult their personal beliefs in justice: did they make the city a safer place taking down the perpetrator, or ... Read more

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Till Dimas, San Francisco police detective, attributes his uncanny sense of smell to an Apache ancestor. His partner, Felix ("Dude") Durand, will never forget the homicide case Till solved in record time relying in large part on his sensitive nose. Closing the case leaves the partners to consult their personal beliefs in justice: did they make the city a safer place taking down the perpetrator, or
... Read more
Day of the Dead

by Angus Brownfield ...

Beseeched by a pair of Mexican boys on the Day of the Dead to assist their kin with a broken-down pickup, Californians newly crossed into Mexico are puzzled by the encounter until they learn the true nature of their visitors. ... Read more

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Beseeched by a pair of Mexican boys on the Day of the Dead to assist their kin with a broken-down pickup, Californians newly crossed into Mexico are puzzled by the encounter until they learn the true nature of their visitors.
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When Your Number's Up, a short story

by Angus Brownfield ...

A jealous mobster approaches a hitman—regarded as the best in his line of work—to eliminate a rival for his lady love's affections. The project violates several of the hitman's self-imposed rules, but when he declines, the mobster showers him with an irresistible increase in his usual fee. The project has a time constraint and this constraint limits his ability to plan adequately, causing him to ... Read more

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A jealous mobster approaches a hitman—regarded as the best in his line of work—to eliminate a rival for his lady love's affections. The project violates several of the hitman's self-imposed rules, but when he declines, the mobster showers him with an irresistible increase in his usual fee. The project has a time constraint and this constraint limits his ability to plan adequately, causing him to
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Sand

by Angus Brownfield ...

Quentin Davies, a boyish lawyer, is considered by some of his fellow citizens in Tombstone to be a lovable pain in the neck. Others find him simply a pain in the neck. He defends Mexicans and Indians, and his detractors fear he will put foolish ideas about rights in the heads of these nuisances. One day he intervenes in a sexual assault on the Mexican woman who runs the bath house behind the ... Read more

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Quentin Davies, a boyish lawyer, is considered by some of his fellow citizens in Tombstone to be a lovable pain in the neck. Others find him simply a pain in the neck. He defends Mexicans and Indians, and his detractors fear he will put foolish ideas about rights in the heads of these nuisances. One day he intervenes in a sexual assault on the Mexican woman who runs the bath house behind the
... Read more
Need

by Angus Brownfield ...

Josh, longing for the freedom of his rowdy hotrodding days, takes the ultimate muscle car for a joy ride. He drives it off a cliff but miraculously survives, rescued by Debra, a girl too young to drive but not too young to appreciate a cool guy like Josh. While he frets about what the police, the car owner and his stuffy boss will say, Debra has figured out a ploy that will get him off the hook ... Read more

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Josh, longing for the freedom of his rowdy hotrodding days, takes the ultimate muscle car for a joy ride. He drives it off a cliff but miraculously survives, rescued by Debra, a girl too young to drive but not too young to appreciate a cool guy like Josh. While he frets about what the police, the car owner and his stuffy boss will say, Debra has figured out a ploy that will get him off the hook
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The Broadband Jungle

by Angus Brownfield ...

Billy Kurtz wants to be a writer, but his life is so dull, so juvenile. So he finds a way to eavesdrop on other people's lives . . . only to discover some folks don't care to contribute to his education. ... Read more

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Billy Kurtz wants to be a writer, but his life is so dull, so juvenile. So he finds a way to eavesdrop on other people's lives . . . only to discover some folks don't care to contribute to his education.
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Kafka's Heater

by Angus Brownfield ...

Dementia or a severe case of loneliness? A single, middle-aged woman with a vivid imagination discovers her electric heater talks to her. Does she succumb to madness? ... Read more

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Dementia or a severe case of loneliness? A single, middle-aged woman with a vivid imagination discovers her electric heater talks to her. Does she succumb to madness?
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The Deep Blue Sea

by Angus Brownfield ...

Carlos Robertson asks his long-time friend, Fredrick, for help with a problem of the heart. There are two women, one a lover, one a friend, but accidents of time, space and the flesh are obscuring the distinction in his feelings. Fredrick's advice is on target, but not what Carlos wants to hear. ... Read more

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Carlos Robertson asks his long-time friend, Fredrick, for help with a problem of the heart. There are two women, one a lover, one a friend, but accidents of time, space and the flesh are obscuring the distinction in his feelings. Fredrick's advice is on target, but not what Carlos wants to hear.
... Read more
The Line That Deserted Him

by Angus Brownfield ...

In a bar, a down-and-outer relates a tale from his former life in order to win the sympathy of another patron, who plies him with drinks. The arc of his story aims downward, until the other patron, thoroughly depressed, leaves money for the down-and-outer as he leaves the bar. Afterwards, the narrator, the bartender and the down-and-outer frankly analyze the effects of his tale. ... Read more

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In a bar, a down-and-outer relates a tale from his former life in order to win the sympathy of another patron, who plies him with drinks. The arc of his story aims downward, until the other patron, thoroughly depressed, leaves money for the down-and-outer as he leaves the bar. Afterwards, the narrator, the bartender and the down-and-outer frankly analyze the effects of his tale.
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The Spare Husband and Other Stories

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