Conversations at Night

by George W. Parker

Part 1 - (1965-1974) Drugs, Sex and Violence.
"Danny was stoned, wired and bored. It was nearly midnight. He was fully dressed and standing in the middle of his room trying to decide what to do."

Part 2 - (1972-1974) A man wants to be remembered.
Fred shuffles his feet, kicking clothes out of his way and heads out through the dark trailer feeling his way along the hall, past the bathroom, the small bedroom, and into the the living room.

Part 3 - (Before 1965) Profiles in Courage.
The night was pitch black. No moon. No stars. The wind was so powerful I had trouble staying on my feet as I ran. But I ran. From dark place to darker place I kept moving, hoping for safety. If anyone was following me I couldn't see them and with all the wind noise I had no chance of hearing them. Just keep running I told myself.

A three part look at Life, Art, and Civilization; Arkansas style.

110 pages, ebook

First published January 17, 2013

About the author

George W. Parker has published an intertextual cycle of American genre novels: Death; Juxtaposed, The Letters, The Krew, Conversations at Night, and Vanishing Trick. Additionally, he has authored The Boy in the Box and The Law, the second and third novels in the Marvin Davis PI series along with Twin Killing, a serial killer novel, Choice Cut and Chop Shop zombie/noir novels. and the Dystopian YA novels, The Tunnel, The City, and The Prairie, as Wendy Alane Macfarland. He lives in Austin and is currently working on The Grove, an expansion on the zombie/noir world.

Paperback/ebooks available at Amazon:
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Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book, a work of outsider literature or something. The book is a series of lots and lots of vignettes which tend to conclude in violence or sex. Parker's style is bare-bones and sometimes very effective, sometimes less so. Parker has a great ear for everyday chitchat, but he fails to provide much insight into his characters' struggles. They just kind of do their thing while we gawk at them. His online reviews are a hoot, talking about how he thinks Flaubert and Philip K. Dick write too complicated.