Sing
Short stories by Dan Szczesny
Volume I of the Hobblebush Granite State Short Story Series
Sing, And Other Short Stories is a collection of ten tales from travel and adventure writer Dan Szczesny. It is his first collection of short stories. From 1930s South Dakota—where one of the last cowboys struggles to find meaning in a modern world—to the Alaskan tundra—where searchers race against time to find the pilot of a missing plane before the grizzlies do—Sing is an ode to common people who are forced to make a stand. Szczesny's flawed characters illuminate the potential and the danger of regular people trying to be extraordinary.
"The stories in Sing catch you off guard again and again—Dan Szczesny is a virtuoso narrative shapeshifter, wily and daring. To paraphrase one of his own characters, he is at once astronaut, poet, theologian, philosopher, chemical engineer, and more. Here are stories that seem to cascade like gentle rain in one instant, then come swinging at the gut in the next. They are unstinting in their lyrical scrutiny of human frailty and longing."
—Tim Horvath, author of Understories
About the Author
DAN SZCZESNY'S first book, The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, is a hiking memoir about a one-year, 225-mile journey through some of New Hampshire's least known wilderness areas with his 10-year-old foster daughter. His second book, The Nepal Chronicles, about his marriage in Kathmandu and a month-long honeymoon trek to Everest Base Camp, was published in 2014 by Hobblebush Books. Sing is his first collection of fiction.
Dan began his career in Buffalo, New York. Since then, he has written for a wide variety of regional and national publications, including the Main Line Times, Philadelphia Weekly, all4women.com, Yahoo! Parenting, and Huffington Post. He writes a weekly column for The Good Men Project called "Modern Dad" about getting kids into nature and the challenges of being an older dad.
He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife Meenakshi and daughter Uma. For more information about the author, visit www.danszczesny.com.
148 pp, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-939449-08-5
Price $16.95
Publication Date: March, 2015
