One More Victim [Kindle Edition]

Randy Attwood (Author)

Book Description

The most important summer of my life began with a house-shaking thunder-boomer that woke me up on a Thursday night in 1958 near the end of my fifth-grade school year.

I walked out of my bedroom to the living room and saw Dad, in his brown pajamas, standing at the window looking out and up at the fury in the sky. On a nearby table, the transistor radio was playing softly so he could hear the news of any tornado sightings. He held the flashlight in case the power went off and we had to go to the basement. His hand was tight around the aluminum cylinder, holding it as if it were a club he could use against the weather. Dad had good reason to be cautious.

Product Details

• File Size: 168 KB
• Print Length: 60 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006J0C6T8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #666,818 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read in a short story December 26, 2011

By KY Bunnies

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WOW! What a wonderful short story. This book starts out in 1958 but ends up in 1994. This book has so much in the few pages that I am amazed at how well the author was able to created such a wonderful story. Please be aware that this review may contain spoilers.

This book starts out with Greg being a 5 year old child woke up by a strong thunderstorm. He walks in the living room of his home and sees his father holding a flashlight looking out into the night sky.

Greg has a father and a step-mother but his real mother died a couple of years ago during a different thunderstorm that had a tornado with the storm. Greg talks about the storm to others but not his father. Greg remembers the storm but is sad that he does not remember the mother who died in the storm.

Greg is a little bit of a weird child. He goes through people's trash for treasures. Greg find some amazing stuff. After the storm Greg builds a hut so help hide some of his treasures. While there one day Greg has an unexpected visitor, Kathy.

Greg shares some of his treasures with Kathy and that starts everything in motion.

This book covers so much in the few pages that it is just a great read. This book can be read in less than an hour but it is an hour well spent. I have not read anything by this author before but I look forward to some of his additional work in the future.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A flash novel? April 7, 2012

By CJ Reads

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm an older gentleman living out in the boonies, so sometimes I forget that the world has seemingly sped up, even as I've slowed down. Having said that, this book felt like a duststorm packed in a tornado and wraped in a hurricane. And I say that in the most flattering way. Attwood (this is my first experience with this author, and I'm pleased to say a suprisingly delightful one) manages to include so much backstory in such a short space that I couldn't help but feel a bit rushed...and yet it didn't feel rushed. It was just the right backstory and it was well constructed. The story itself was such a delight to discover. It left me breathless.

Having said that, there were a couple things in the beginning that I didn't really favor, the poetry being one. It felt a bit gratuitous. As did the scene with Dale, even though it was quite brief. I can see how it all fit, but it just didn't work for me. There was also something about Greg that I just couldn't feel connected to him. Those were really the only things that kept me from absolutely loving this short long story. (Sorry, Randy, not sure what more I can say; maybe it's just me).

The writing is otherwise superbe. I'll definitely be checking out more of Attwood's tales.

4.0 out of 5 stars One More Victim April 17, 2013

By Arlena

Format:Kindle Edition

Author: Randy Attwood
Published by: R.A.
Age Recommended: Adult
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 4

Review:

"One More Victim" by Randy Attwood was a well written collection of four stories that only Mr. Attwood could give its readers. 'One More Victim' was a very emotional and memorable story. 'The Saltness of Time" was of four stranded college stranded in a blizzard in Kansas. 'Blue Kansas Sky' concerning the mind some adolescent boys and last 'Innocent Passage we find boys that will discover hidden secrets. I did find these reads very interesting and with the setting to be from Kansas. Each of Mr. Attwood's short stories were all good reads that left the reader with a message of being able to connect with and if nothing else leaving you to say Wow, that was a interesting read..Really!

More About the Author

I grew up on the grounds of Larned State Hospital, where my father was its dentist. That was interesting. I went to The University of Kansas during the tumultuous 1960s. That was interesting, too. For the first half of my adult career I worked in newspaper journalism. You couldn't call that boring. I won my share of honors, twice winning the award for investigative reporting from the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU. For the second half of my career I was Director of University Relations at The University of Kansas Medical Center. There were some boring times, but the exciting episodes made up for it. I retired at the end of 2010 from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, where I was its media relations officer. You see, my degree from KU was not in journalism, but in art history. Unfortunately, my father died when I was 21 so I couldn't make him eat his words about that art history degree not being worth anything. I've had stints living in Italy and in Japan.

During all this time I've been putting words on paper, creating fiction. My works don't fit into neat genres, unless that rather new genre "quirky" applies. And each work is quirky in its own way. What that means for me is that in each work is evidence of a deep search within myself. Sometimes it's scary what you find in there.

I'm semi-retired now in Kansas City, keeping busy with a lot of things, among them promoting my fiction and creating new works. That search within yourself never ends.