This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery.
The short stories captured on these pages are snippets of a well-lived life. I gathered information like a thief through the years and then one lovely and sunny day, I put pen to paper, filled my mouth with ink and spat it all on paper. What fun I had with these, my precious little stories. I have a Blue Million more to write.
Lou Grimes is an ex-Chicago Police Detective who lived through the stock market crash, the Great Depression, and the Race Riots of 1919. He was on a downward spiral until he begins working as a "Private Detective" which leads him to a mystery that needs unravelling and a murder that needs solving. Then there is a twist of events where he is introduced to his ghostly cousins and enters into a strange partnership all because of a cursed gun!
From his over-bearing old man to the street fights and gang wars; Tony has survived Port Nichols and all it had done to try and keep him there. It was time to move on and become the man he was destined to be. He needed to mature and the military would help him do that and more. Life lessons are sometimes very hard but never boring. Tony will have to face personal peril many times as he decides whether to give in, or clear the shame attached to his name and become a man of honour.
Growing up in the projects, in a harbour town in Ontario, with a father who cared little of pride and honour; Tony Simons is done and looking for a way out. From street fights to gang wars, Tony is determined to clear the shame attached to his name and become a man of honour."The gangs headed out to the highway and formed up two by two. As the group took over the QEW, southbound and accelerated to an evil speed and deafening roar. The Harleys thundered down the blacktop; 80, 90, 100 mph!
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