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Fiction. Volume I of the Hobblebush Granite State Short Story Series. SING, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES is a collection of ten tales from travel and adventure writer Dan Szczesny. It is his first collection of short stories. From 1930s South Dakota—where one of the last cowboys struggles to find meaning in a modern world—to the Alaskan tundra—where searchers race against time to find the pilot of a missing plane before the grizzlies do—SING is an ode to common people who are forced to make a stand. Szczesny's flawed characters illuminate the potential and the danger of regular people trying to be extraordinary.

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The stories in Sing catch you off guard again and again Dan Szczesny is a virtuoso narrative shapeshifter, wily and daring. To paraphrase one of his own characters, he is at once astronaut, poet, theologian, philosopher, chemical engineer, and more. Here are stories that seem to cascade like gentle rain in one instant, then come swinging at the gut in the next. They are unstinting in their lyrical scrutiny of human frailty and longing. --Tim Horvath, author of Understories

Dan's stories skirt the soft underbelly of a world filled with invisible people we never see but know are there. His characters are deliciously real; some suited perfectly for dysfunctional daytime TV talk shows. If these were his invisible friends in childhood or from his world travels, then those dark encounters lead to a brilliantly-written palate of compelling stories. And who knows? Some could be true. --Mike Morin, broadcast personality, columnist and author of Fifty Shades of Radio

The first story, Little Warrior, in Dan Szczesny s new book of short stories is a soaring, tender and intimate account of two endearing and quirky characters whose lives and personalities are polar opposites. And yet, from the compelling first four pages, we somehow know, improbably, that they will come together. . . . Szczesny rocks us back and forth in a beautiful balance of pace and narrative, building the anticipation toward the end with a delicate and steady hand. Threading throughout the whole story, and binding it together as with all the stories in the book is the author s exquisite eye for the natural world, the physicality of place, the characters deep connections to the land and its living inhabitants. Beautiful, evocative, these stories are ultimately about love in all its possibilities and manifestations. --Becky Dennison Sakellariou, author of Earth Listening

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Dan Szczesny is a long-time journalist and travel writer living in New Hampshire. His first book, The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, is a hiking memoir about a one year, 225-mile journey through some of New Hampshire's least known wilderness with his 10-year-old foster daughter. His second book, THE NEPAL CHRONICLES, about his marriage in Kathmandu and a month-long honeymoon trek to Everest Base Camp, was published in 2014 by Hobblebush Books. SING (Hobblebush Books, 2015) is his first collection of fiction.

Dan began his career in Buffalo, New York. Since then, he has written for a wide variety of regional and national publications, including the Main Line Times, Philadelphia Weekly, all4women.com, Yahoo! Parenting, and Huffington Post. He writes a weekly column for The Good Men Project called "Modern Dad" about getting kids into nature and the challenges of being an older dad.

He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife Meenakshi and daughter Uma. For more information about the author, visit his website.

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144 pages
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English
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March 15, 2015
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1939449081
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978-1939449085
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hobblebush Books; First Edition (March 15, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939449081
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939449085
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.01 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

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Dan Szczesny is a long-time journalist, author and speaker living in New Hampshire.

He’s written several books of travel memoir (The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, Mosquito Rain), fiction (Sing and Other Stories) and poetry (Invincible One, Poems).

His book, The Nepal Chronicles, about a month long trek to Everest Base Camp and marriage in Kathmandu, won the 2016 New Hampshire state library award for Outstanding Work of Non-Fiction.

Dan is also the Editor of Murder Ink, a series of New England-based Pulp Fiction anthologies set in or around the newsroom.

His short story, “White Like Marble” was a finalist in the 2017 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Short Shorts Contest, out of the Hemingway Birthplace in Oak Park, Ill.

Dan’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is a year long exploration of the Northeast’s tallest peak. Mt. Washington – home of the world’s worst weather – is more than just a Rock Pile, it’s the cultural and natural soul of climbers and tourists from around the world. From car races to bird watching, from bikes to motorcycles, from the railroad to the stars to a century old observatory, Mount Washington speaks to the adventurer in all of us, and Dan turned his veteran journalist’s eye toward capturing it all in his new book.

The White Mountain won the 2019 New Hampshire Writer’s Project award for outstanding work of non-fiction, and won the People’s Choice award for non-fiction that year as well.

His newest book, U & Me: Reflections from the Fatherhood Frontier, is a collection of essays exploring parenting and fatherhood.

Dan began his career in Buffalo, New York. Since then, he has written for a wide variety of regional and national publications, including the Main Line Times, Philadelphia Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Princeton Packet, Pennsylvania Magazine, Appalachia Journal, New Hampshire Magazine, AMC Outdoors, Yahoo! Parenting and Huffington Post.

In 2000, he moved to New Hampshire to cover the Presidential Election. In 2001, Dan became Associate Publisher of The Hippo, now the state’s largest Arts and Entertainment journal.

He’s a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 4,000-footer club and has written extensively about the outdoors and hiking. He has camped in the Grand Canyon, hiked England’s Coast to Coast Trail and trekked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Dan was a hiking guide and naturalist for Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center in Milton, Mass.

Dan is available for interviews at danszczesny@gmail.com

More at www.danszczesny.com

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Evokes empathy for people often otherwise tossed aside or caricatured

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015

Szczesny's book is a tightly written, compellingly crafted collection of stories about losers. Or at least the people that you and I too often dismiss as losers: the homeless man at the concert, the mismatched couple on the daytime talk show, the teenage runaway with barely half a clue of her place in the world. And yet most of the stories contain so much compassion and respect for their characters that you can't help but plunge into their lives, realizing that if these are losers, then that's what we all are.

The stories in "Sing" chart a course across the U.S., ranging from the wilderness of Alaska to the dusty plains of South Dakota to the familiar territory of rural New Hampshire. Much of it is work focused. Szczesny writes with authority about people working a variety of different jobs, often blue collar, and (as far as I know!) gets his details just right. His own experiences as a traveler have probably informed some of this, but good research has got to play a big role as well.

I ended up liking the far-flung and/or historical stories the most, I think. Among the modern-day mundane-setting ones, there's a story that's too short to go anywhere ... and there's another (the title story) that is the longest and also the most off-putting, with a main character who does horrible things with no (included) justification. In fact, I'm not sure why that latter story deserved to be the title story. "Little Warriors" and "Gold Dust" were terrific stories with titles that catch your ear.

But overall, this is the work of a fine writer confident in his prose and capable of evoking the reader's empathy for people often otherwise tossed aside or caricatured (in both real life and fiction).

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018

I'm used to Dan's books taking me to the mountains and on great adventures, but with Sing he shows us another side with a group of excellent short stories. The subject matter may be different, but Dan's wonderful writing style comes through. Definitely a good read!

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Smart, well-crafted stories from a big-hearted writer.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2016

Dan Szcesny has done a lot of different things in a lot of different places, and this is a fine, free-range collection of stories that reflects that breadth of experience. We start in the Alaskan Bush (“Little Warriors”), swing down to the Dakotas (“Gold Dust”), bottle ourselves up in an office cubicle (“By Hammer and Hand”), dress up for an exploitative reality TV talk-show segment (“Afternoon Television”), and so on.

For characters we have the people on the fringes of these various worlds, fighting for just a breath of dignity. “Gold Dust” rides that ancient conflict between a rancher and developers, but the author’s sympathy even for the rancher’s antagonist lends a new and poignant twist to an old sort of story. “More Than Breath” delineates the decline of a once promising jazz musician in language that catches at the nub of disappointment and regret. The centerpiece, though, is the title story—“Sing” is of nearly novella length and explores a small city’s S&M scene through the eyes of an especially unsettling protagonist.

Smart, well-crafted stories from a big-hearted writer.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2016

Szczesny takes us into the lives of people that we tend to overlook. Some that live on what some might consider to be the darker side of life. Each story is unique unto itself and left me wanting more. "Sing" surprised me the most, entering the unspoken realm of sexual fantasy with an unexpected ending. Well done!

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