Brad Barkley Books
Dream Factory
By Brad Barkley
When the Disney World character actors go on strike, teens are hired as replacements. Ella is assigned the role of Cinderella simply because the shoes fit. And every afternoon at three o?clock she...
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Alison's automotive repair manual
By Brad Barkley
"A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison Durst has been mourning the death of her husband for two years. Living in a small town in West Virginia with her sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Bill, Alison...
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Money, love
By Brad Barkley
"Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer's porch, the housewife nodding thoughtfully, the deal abo...
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Scrambled eggs at midnight
By Brad Barkley
Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin to acknowledge some unpleasant truths about their parents and form their own ideas about love.
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Circle view
By Brad Barkley
The thirteen stories of Brad Barkley's debut collection depict characters haunted by memory and missed chances, buoyed by humor and a fragile optimism, while they seek the permanence of meaning and...
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Circle view
By Brad Barkley
The thirteen stories of Brad Barkley's debut collection depict characters haunted by memory and missed chances, buoyed by humor and a fragile optimism, while they seek the permanence of meaning and...
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