Tales by Anthony Trendl
Fantastic Stories
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It was good.
—Ernest Hemingway, bon vivant
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—Desidia, Tim Charleston’s Persian cat-from The Book of Endorsements: A Ridiculously Short Spiritual Satire Featuring 50+ Glowing Reviews
Silly tales for the slightly older child. Easy and quick to read aloud with the occasional tongue-twister, my tales are the sort of stories you heard as a child. Like Richard Chase’s Jack Tales, each is more outlandish than the next. With rich rhythms and delicious vocabulary, enjoy well-told stories in your favorite tree fort.
Death, Misery, & Other Curiosities: 12 Dark Short Stories Filled With Angst and Tragedy
Death. Loneliness. Fear. Failure. Sin. Pretense. Arrogance. Doubt. Find all those here. Tales looking at executions, suicide, murder, and other manners of demise. Stories resounding in brokenness and despair, each grabbing for the unreachable.
Sample from This Is the House
This is the house where I will die.
This is the house where I will lie.
This is the house where I will stay.
May they all be merry in the morning.
You know how it goes. That old poem. Maybe your mama sang it to you. Or your daddy did when he came home drunk, right after he beat you and right before he collapsed asleep on the living room couch.
Those verses just hang with you, showing up at the strangest times, like when you’re in church receiving communion, or at a party when you should be singing, “Happy Birthday.” Maybe it isn’t this poem. Maybe you’ve got a different one. An old pop song— “Yesterday” by the Beatles or “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder.
I wish. I’ve got the awful one about the house. This one is mine, and it crept in this time when it is true. It’s like a mosquito in the middle of the night in winter. It makes no sense but you can’t escape. I’d rather the Stevie tune.
Fun Tales
Animals stuck inside a house trying to escape
A boy who would rather dream than have adventures
The inventor of the most horrible ice cream
A baseball game that goes much differently than expected
A kid name Pepper Jack creates wind
Macabre Tales
A man faces execution and receives an unbelievable offer
Two dead men tour a cemetery
A man is trapped inside a house without food or water
A town leader is memorialized as a statue, and is sentient
A father thinks his young daughter is dead, but can’t face the truth
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
- Dr. Seuss
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
- C. S. Lewis
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