tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736204819713835762023-06-20T06:43:32.773-07:00Stories by George A. DavisGeorge A. Davis Short Story Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471004260977858637noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873620481971383576.post-78581395334544705832009-06-20T22:41:00.056-07:002023-02-16T23:07:13.872-08:00George A. Davis Bio and Short Story Collections <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">BIO: George A. Davis - Philadelphia, PA native, formerly </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">resided in Tampa, FL now resides Glenside PA; Recipient of Judith Stark Creative Writing Award at Community College of Philadelphia; Third Place Award, Tampa Writers Alliance 23rd annual writing contest; contributed to anthologies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">A collection of stories dazzling in variety. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Short Story Collections by George A. Davis</u></span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A COLLECTION</span> of<span style="font-size: x-small;"> MICRO</span> and <span style="font-size: x-small;">FLASH FICTIONS (2022) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">MARS ICE</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">AND OTHER STORIES</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(2018) amazon.com/dp/1723157937</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Residents wonder why ducks disappeared from the pond until they see the frog. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jean loves Peter and marries him. And years later, she finds out why he married her. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Secret agents have to rescue their spy; a mechanic volunteers his daughter to help; she changes her appearance to resemble a boy because of the state's law against women driving. The spy believing in that law nearly stops his and his family's escape.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Monique and Eddie are college sweethearts until she meets her future husband. Many years later, Monique and Eddie casually bump into each and have a life update chat. A couple of years afterwards, they meet.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Prior to graduation, the high school students practice the tradition of pairing for upgoing events. After graduation they may go their own way or not, Renee wants to go her own way, but Carl warns her not to. He ruins her life dreams. </span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It is declared a dangerous intruder from Mars and dealt with on a need to know. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And 32 other flash fictions<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span>ONCE UPON A TIME IN PHILADELPHIA, PA during Prohibition - short stories (2017) amazon.com/dp/1545486409</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Eddie Charles a Detroit gangster becomes a Philly gangster selling Canadian whiskey. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Al Miller took over her father's P-eye business after his death and continued doing jobs for the mob.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pat is a boss gangster's bodyguard and fixer; he has to fix a problem that his sister has with her husband.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Carl 'smithy' Smith was chased from Tampa FL by rival gangsters to Georgia where he became a peach farmer. His mother sent for him to help his sister escape from her brutal husband. His stepfather refused to intervene. The husband wants his family back. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">STREETLIGHT detective stories-these ladies are hardnosed street wise detectives (2013) amazon.com/dp/1492357596</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Sammie Pryor a Philly homicide detective solves murders most foul.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Wylie is a P-eye hired by a mother to protect her daughter from her incestuous father.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Lisa is a federal police detective who tracks down homegrown terrorists. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Marty Edwards a homicide detective hunts a serial killer who does his evil acts based on the folklores of the Moon. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And other stories. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">MEN ARE SOMETIMES LIKE CATS -short stories (2013) amazon.com/dp/1490433724 </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In 1947 CIA agency recruits an agent based on his WW2 war record not knowing that he is a in the closet homosexual</span><span>.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Carl 'smithy' Smith soldiered in WW1. When he returned home, he resented that his widowed mother remarried. He's unable to find a job until a bootlegging gangster put him on his payroll.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Freddie owes a cabaret in a Havana barrio. He hates the U S gangster's casinos competitions. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And other stories. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: x-small;">IN THE ROUGH</span> short stories (2008) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peppertree Press amazon.co/dp/0982047940</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A serial rapist stalks downtown office building. Billie a lesbian security officer is hired to protect an office building employee. She stalks a pretty secretary.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Derrick recruits a butch lesbian to dress and act like a prostitute to rob an armored car.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tracie's husband was killed on the job as a guard. She wants to know why. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mickie is a big-time loan shark until the loan shark competition gets hot from a lesbian hating dude. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">and other stories </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">STREET LIFE </span><span style="font-size: small;">short stories (2008) </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peppertree Press </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: x-small;">TALES FROM A THORNBUSH</span> short stories (2007) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peppertree Press </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The stories are brief, some gritty, some are not. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Crime, Drama, Suspense, Sci-fi = g<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">ood reading for everybody. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>S<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; border-spacing: 20px; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tories contributed to anthologies</span></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Shot In The Storm" Wordier Than Thou 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; border-spacing: 20px; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The Loan Shark" South Philly Fiction 2013</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; border-spacing: 20px; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Go To A Meeting" Tampa Writers Alliance 2009</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Ride On The Mississippi" Palm Print 2006</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go To A Meeting: a short play set in 1964 - read by Carrollwood Players 2009</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">These stories are a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. No part of these publications may be reproduced in any manner or form without prior written permission of the author. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Copyright 2007 George A. Davis</span><span style="font-family: "times";"><br /></span><br />
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