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Salvation by Terry Dalrymple "In the title story of Salvation, gas station attendant Charlie Don Atwood desires a woman and turns to God to help him find one. In other stories, an elderly hypochondriac wants sympathy and turns to a fifty-year-old memory in search of it; an aging widow desires escape from boredom and turns to robbery for excitement; a high school boy desires the prettiest girl in class but must maneuver around a drug dealer, a bi-sexual, and a hefty girl with a tinfoil club during his pursuit; and a frustrated husband desires freedom from a wife who dribbles toothpaste on the faucet and refrigerates Vienna sausages, and he must play a quirky poker game to determine his fate. From the comic to the somber, these and the other five character-driven stories of this collection entertainingly convey the mysterious magic of human relationships.

About the author: Terry Dalrymple has published numerous short stories, articles, and reviews in periodicals such as Modern Short Stories, Cimarron Review, American Literary Review, Short Story, The Writer, and Writer’s Digest. His stories have appeared in the anthologies New Growth 2 and Texas Short Stories. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9747839-0-0 Short Fiction / $16.95