Book Image Not Available Book Image Not Available

See inside

View Back Cover

Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Short Stories
  • Language:English
  • Pages:196
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350990256

Also available at

Shards

By Domenic Fiore Brunelli

Overview

"...ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground..." Bob Dylan sang in one of his earlier iterations, and these are words one might be mindful of while reading some of these stories.

Fallen priests and witches, bible dwellers and whores, a princess and a decrepit, old weenie-wagger, "SHARDS" features these and many more. It is not a romance, nor who-dun-it, nor sci-fi, nor anything of the sort. It is a collection of seven peculiar stories which stand on their own, but whose fractured characters pop up here and there like strangers on the escalator of life.

Read more

Description

"SHARDS" is rated R, occasionally bordering on X. It is a work of fiction, but the players are as true as the author could make them. There is inescapable sin, which binds all of us, in some of its ugly manifestations, and even strange love.

The reader will meet Vickie the whore, Fat Tony and Skinny Louise, Big, pink Danny, old Rummy and his love the Polish Princess, "Shitforbrains" and "Eight O'clock Frank", Little Miss Heart-Shaped Asshole, the Mrs.,"Pipsqueak", the late John W. Griffin, Lazarus, Judas and The Good Thief, Chuck the pencil-dick Eagle Scout and Sybil the witch, the Whore of Babylon, Superbia the White Witch, Big Gula (all tits and ass), Pomona the Indian mountain spirit, "Cucumber" Rodriguez and "Teapot", Satan, "Handcuffs" the police chief, Ginger the spitfire, Dirty Ramona, George the bouncer, Horny Bill, Dom the power-walker, Debbie Reynolds, Liz Taylor, Liberace, the elusive Bobbaloo, Tyrone Jiggetts, Fred ("Tick") Buffaloe and Jimmy the Golden Guinea.

Read more

About The Author

Domenic Fiore Brunelli grew up in a Little Italy neighborhood of Philadelphia and was the first on either side of his family to attend and graduate from college. He worked for 37 years as a pre-sentence investigator for the judges of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. In that job, he investigated thousands of criminals, from misdemeanants to hired assassins. He followed his inquiries with nearly 3,000 long, factual reports, but has branched out to creative writing since retirement.

"SHARDS" is his second book, after "Big Daddy: From Near to Eternity", which was a true-to-life look-back at his life in vignettes sometimes amusing and often touching.

He is married with two adult children and now lives with his wife in a suburban community outside Philly. Dom enjoys working out and powerwalking in his leisure time.

Read more