Welcome to Day 5 of the "COMES THIS TIME TO FLOAT" Blog Tour! @stephengeez #FreshInkGroup
Salutations!
Delighted, I am, to catch you here at Day 5 of 7! I am humbled by the kindness of my wondrous host for sharing some blog space today. I hope to interest you bookish types in trying my first book in way too many years, this my only collection of short fiction: Comes this Time to Float: 19 Short Stories by Stephen Geez. You could add another ���by Stephen Geez��� to that, as I put the moniker in the subtitle, too. I���d be forcing it to find a theme, except maybe that all my stories try to look at something I think is important, but told in a decorative sort of way. Written here and there among novels over two decades, they show a variety of genres and styles, as I get restless. Now they���re tucked between jacketed hardcovers and softs, or in e-however-you-likes.
The Enticement
Each tour stop will offer the opening paragraphs of a story from the book, then link to the full story online. Two will also link to audio-shorts narrated by me. The promo video my cohort and I made will be foisted on you every day. We like to use narrators, but that didn���t seem right for my own trailer, so, well yeah, me. On the last day, assuming anyone comments, we���ll tell you how to find out if you���re a random book winner and try one more story in both text and audio. If any impress you, check out my widely varying novels and collection of memoir essays. Find any blogs you miss on the Events page at 4WillsPublishing.com, link below. Be sure to follow our hosts��� blogs and discover their writing, maybe post a thank-you-too.
And you, I thank you, too.
A Geez Author Blurb
Stephen Geez grew up in the Detroit suburbs during the American-auto domination. He earned his undergraduate and master���s degrees at the University of Michigan���Ann Arbor. He retired from scripting/producing television and composing/producing television music, then expanded his small literary management firm into indie-publisher and multi-media company Fresh Ink Group. Now he works from a deck overlooking the lake in north Alabama, helping other writers share their compelling narratives with the world.
The Book Blurb
Prepare to think as you explore these wildly disparate literary short stories by author, composer, and producer Stephen Geez. Avoiding any single genre, this collection showcases Geez���s storytelling from southern gothic to contemporary drama to coming-of-age, humor, sci-fi, and fantasy���all finessed to say something about who we are and what we seek. Some of these have been passed around enough to need a shot of penicillin, others so virgin they have never known the seductive gaze of a reader���s eyes. So when life���s currents get to pulling too hard, don���t fight it, just open the book and discover nineteen new ways of going with the flow, because NOW more than ever Comes this Time to Float.
The Promo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wJSjEtqhk
Today���s Sample: ���Sidekick���
I just figured out something all superheroes should know about our sidekicks.
I happened upon my own sidekick long before I grew up and stepped into the role of hero, way back when I was just a regular suburban kid with no inkling of my destiny as the savior of countless lives. Never a fan of those other heroes who star in their own comic books, I had no idea what a sidekick is supposed to do, let alone how much I would even need one.
And now, after decades working with my own sidekick for the common good, something has gone horribly wrong, and the blood is coming too fast, the injuries too severe, time too short. It���s breaking my heart that our era as superhero and sidekick is about to end.
I was nine or ten years old when the world���s most unlikely wannabe sidekick and his single-parent mom moved to our town. They set up housekeeping in that leaky rat���s nest of an old farmhouse down the dirt road where overgrown fields pushed feebly against encroaching scrub. Two years younger than I, skinny and smallish for his age, he tried to look passable in tattered second-hand clothes usually sized too big or too small. Ever the bully magnet, he liked to pedal around on his chain-throwing rattletrap bicycle, a mismatch of old parts he���d scavenged. Since I was the only boy who didn���t taunt him or push him down, he got to where he���d follow me about, hoping to join in while I hung out with others, but mostly content to hover at the periphery. He knew his place, but never acted resentful, instead of appearing grateful for the tolerated proximity. No matter how much I ignored him, though, he often seemed to be watching me intently, studying me, as if appraising something only he could see.
Catching me alone with nowhere particular to go one day, he said he had a secret to tell me. He looked around as if worried someone might approach with bad intent. ���Not here,��� he whispered.
Now, as piqued as preteen boys are about mysteries, they���re just as skeptical of other boys��� promises of intrigue, except that he looked so serious my curiosity won out. ���Just tell me,��� I insisted, but he wiped his nose on his sleeve, then simply looked me straight in the eyes and waited, for once not looking so jumpy and scared.
The Whole Story
Be sure to come back here!
https://freshinkgroup.com/fig-shorts/sidekick/
The Audio-short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdVKknrOxc
Find the Book Now
Should be just about everywhere, but here are the biggies:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/comes+this+time+to+float?_requestid=1776240
Other Places I Lurk
https://twitter.com/stephengeez
Instagram: StephenGeezWriter
https://StephenGeez.Wordpress.com
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