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A 13-year-old girl earns a night in jail, the unexpected
consequence of good intentions. She couldn't have
done it though, without help from a little brother, a
computer, and a grouchy neighbor. And she wouldn't
have a lot to look forward to afterward without the support
of an elderly neighbor with famous connections.
A 9th-century Russian peasant, fancying himself a
physician, crosses the steppe together with a fugitive
woman and two Greek holy men in pursuit of an elusive
rendezvous. While the physician awakens to the Greeks'
advanced culture, the holy men discover the rudiments of
what is now the Cyrillic alphabet.
In a growing collection
of whimsically morbid short stories, a train leaves the
station and is never seen again, a boy falls in love with a
face from 60 years before, an old woman trudges into her
past, a child crawls into a place that is not suspected to
exist and the entrance has disappeared behind him, and
more.
THREE NAKED LADIES
PLAYING CELLOS
compiled and edited by
David A. Woodbury
copyright 1999-2000 by DamnYankee.com
MARY SULLIVAN ESSEFF - Khalil
knows the phrase, Love one another, but to a nine-year-old
it’s only a saying. He learns something of its true
meaning when he sees it expressed by his saintly father.
DOUGLAS C. SMYTH - A traveling peddler loses his
professional detachment when he realizes the extent of the
goat lady’s vulnerability. He doesn’t have time for
this, you know.
GABRIEL STEVENS - Sometimes you think you’re as low as you
can go, and then things really go wrong.
TERRY BURNS - And what were you going to do with that
gun? How can a simple knock at the door so radically
change your options?
MICHAEL OSTLUND - After more than four years of combat
Major O’Malley understood the hazards but still relished
the fight. His team was the best, and he owed it to
his son.
MICHELLE BUCKMAN - What was more symbolic of Allysia’s
union with Chris than her wedding band? Could losing
that symbol herald some crushing tragedy?
JIM WILEY - A boy of twelve has the chance to prove to the
old woman that he is not a hooligan. The old woman
has the chance to prove she is not... not what? Not
an old woman?
LEE SMITH - The strange things people did to regain God’s
favor after those suitcase atom bombs started going off all
over the crazy place -- on average three a week in the U.S.
alone! And what worse place to go report on such
antics than the site of what had once been Hanoi!
CINDY APPEL - Calinda is just a lone transport pilot
shipwrecked on an uninhabited chunk of cosmic debris.
Who is it, then, that provides for her in such familiar
ways?
B. J. LAWRY - On a very long road trip, don’t you
inevitably encounter the same nuisance vehicle again and
again? Sometimes you’re ready to report it to the
authorities, too.
JO ANN YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ - Can an ill-gotten gift say
what’s in your heart? If it’s from the heart, is it
truly ill-gotten?
SUSAN SHELL WINSTON - The memories don’t go with the house,
do they? Can’t leave them behind. The buyer
won’t know what to do with them.
PAT BROWN - Fabled person of the sky, meet fabled
inhabitant of the planet that might have been earth.
Courtesy is due, but beware of what you don’t understand.
DAVID A. WOODBURY - He loved that face, but couldn't know
then what secret its simple beauty concealed.
DON WINDLE - The stuff that makes for blood-racing fiction
also happens in lived-to-tell-about-it real life.
There’s a big difference between imagined and remembered.
DEB HARTRUM - Is there anything more poignant than letting
go -- really letting go?
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PRAISE FOR THREE NAKED
LADIES...
"This anthology title, Three Naked Ladies Playing Cellos,
tells you to get ready for some unexpected creativity and
revelations. There are no cello players among its 16
contributors but all are great writers. Some pieces
expressed the spiritual depth of a Beethoven sonata;
others, the psychological subtlety of a Chopin polonaise."
-Louis M. Savary, Musician, Mathematician and Co-author of
"Kything: The Art of Spiritual Presence."
"This anthology contains sparkling samples of a splendid
smattering of short stories produced in pursuit of quality
storytelling."
- Clare Crawford-Mason, Television Documentary Producer and
Co-author of "Quality... or Else!"
"Seldom have I enjoyed such stirring stories as produced by
the writers of the gems in this anthology."
-Suzanne Berne, Author of "A Crime in the Neighborhood,"
Winner of the coveted British Orange Prize
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