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A Footnote to History
If the armadillo hadn't crossed the moonlit road at that specific moment in 1967, the newlywed couple would not have died in a car crash. The 3092 search algorithm would not have substituted a perfect clone for the husband in the moment of his fiery death. He would not have been taken out of Time to be trained for a lethal mission by the last, best leader of the Terran Service. But the rule of unintended consequences governs. Cascading anomalies proliferated around that moment on the moonlit highway and the orderly flow of Time would never be the same ... if it ever was to start with.
After August
"One of my favorite storytellers," - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist "A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida." - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post "As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose," - Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.
Mean Grey Old Morning
"Immolation of someone else's diary was not how I had planned to start my day - it was a mean grey old morning, but I didn't know then that was what to call it ..." From surveillance of a yellow convertible in South Carolina to conversation with a streetwalker on Sunset Boulevard to a visit to Hemingway's grave in Idaho, the writer builds a mural of life in the last half of the twentieth century.
Shadow of a Soldier: Army Tales From an Unpublished Diary & Other Orphan Stories
While serving as a husky young MP in Europe, noted sci-fi author Bill Burkett kept a diary of his misadventures, encounters, romances, and sightseeing. Later, he turned these scribblings into what he calls Brautigans, so named after a writer named Richard Brautigan whose short story style he admired. Many of these stories never made it into collections of Burkett's work, so he refers to them as "orphans," unclaimed writing that have been pulled together under the general theme of soldiering. But in addition to stories of Burkett's military days you will also be treated to adventures in the Bahamas and the American northwest. "A real treat," says anthologist Hollis George, who worked with Burkett in their early newspapering days.
Newspaper Gypsy—A Writer's Journey
The career of a newspaper journalist told as a series of short stories, each more fascinating than the one before. This saga of a reporter's career is real enough to be true. A roman à clef? A memoir? Never mind, just let former newspaper gypsy Bill Burkett tell you his stories.
Snowing a Little In Paris and Other Cold War Stories
"Burkett sees his life as a series of literary vignettes, and here are those stories capturing his days in the military. Not tales of a shooting war — rather they're the sharp observations of a young man facing a cold war of the heart." - Shirrel Rhoades Former Associate Publisher, Harper's Magazine Another masterful collection of short fiction from the author of Mean Grey Old Morning, After August, Twin Killing, and Sleeping Planet. Here are impressionistic stories about his military days in Europe and budding love in the City of Lights.
Family Skeleton
"Who says a private eye has to walk the mean streets of LA? Burkett has found an apt home for hardboiled p.i. Eddie Hummel in that rainy city of Seattle. An outstanding read." - H.L. Osterman, Short Changed Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there's more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled '70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into high gear and starts rattling a few ... family skeletons.
Twin Killing
The seventies in Seattle: XXX-rated theatres on First Avenue and a dramatic economic meltdown that swamped the street activism of the sixties and led to the famous billboard lament: Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights. The blonde with blatant curves sheathed in a green wool dress hired Eddie Hummel for a job that seemed nuttier than a boatload of pecans headed for Brazil. But it was too wet in the Rainy City for any husbands to be straying, and his creditors were making strained noises in their collection departments. Before it was over he would be knee-deep in bodies....
The Duck Hunter Diaries, Book 1
For Bill Burkett, life has been an extended series of duck hunts. Here are his personal diaries that describe memorable hunts along with the high points of his journalistic career. Any hunter will identify and find these tales as exhilarating as taking down that first bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal.
The Pea-Green Boat and Other Unsettling Stories
Ever read a story that made the hairs on your arms stand up? Well, get ready for a few unexpected chills as you read this new collection of short stories from the pen of William R. Burkett, Jr. Each of these stories are slightly off-center, just enough to be … unsettling. From the title story (it first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post) to encounters with flying saucers and near-encounters with Santa Claus, Burkett will keep you guessing just where the boundaries of reality lie. “Top-notch storytelling,” says Hollis George, editor of Mary Shelley's Forbidden Dreams and Bram Stoker Without Fangs.
