Newest book:


The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon 

and Other Stories 

by Byron Grush



The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon and Other Stories

A Cabinets of Curiosities of short stories. The disparate juxtaposition of Frito pies and the burning of Old Man Gloom, the fatal flight of the Wingfoot, Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré, the Salles des Glaces, equestrians Rose Dockrell and George Holland, the CSS Alabama vs. the USS Kearsage, Al Capone and the 226 Club, The Yellow Kid, and Doc W’s antique dentist’s drill. With as little similarity as a narwhale’s tusk has to an astrolabes Islamique, the commonality here is the quasi-genre of Historical Fiction. Love and tragedy, time travel and nostalgia, and some nice big explosions

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