Story In Fiction William H Coles

The first story, On the Road to Yazoo City, is about a broke, loveless guitar player walking through Mississippi hoping to find a gig when he comes upon a young aloof waif of a girl who leads him through a day of shocking awareness of the nature of love and life that changes the direction ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #26, the short stories “On the Road to Yazoo City / Dr. Greiner’s Day in court”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

In a small town in Mississippi, a young boy is bullied by an older girl on the way home from school he retaliates and is blamed as the aggressor. When the families of the two children are on an outing, the girl is found dead. Although there is no proof, and the boy is innocent, ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #25, the short story “The Indelible Myth”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

With consternation, a long-haul big-rig truck driver reluctantly picks up a young woman seemingly injured on the side of an interstate highway and against his will and judgement takes her home to his wife who receives the girl as the child she never had and irreversibly alters the trucker’s future. Award-winning short story in the ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #24, the short story “Inside the Matryoshka”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A medical student is infatuated with her much older professor and defies her mother’s warnings of disastrous results if she continues an affair with a much older man highly respected for his status and work at university. But the mother’s feelings and advice are complicated by the arrival of a box that has items that ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #23, the short story “Grief”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A boy mother takes him to visit his grandparents in upstate New York when the farm is swarmed with hordes of flies from swampland on an adjacent property forcing angry dysfunctional interactions among grandparents and mother that finally presents an opportunity for the boy to see his father, who is estranged from his mother and ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #22, the short story “War of the Flies”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

Mike Boudreaux is the chief of surgery at a prominent New Orleans hospital and his much older partner, Clayton Otherson, is making life-threatening mistakes in surgery. Catherine, Clayton’s wife, finds herself attracted to Mike, and when family life becomes unbearable, she turns to him for help and support; they fall in love. Clayton become obsessed ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #21, The Surgeon’s Wife, a novel read by the author, installment 3 appeared first on Story in Fiction.

Mike Boudreaux is the chief of surgery at a prominent New Orleans hospital and his much older partner, Clayton Otherson, is making life-threatening mistakes in surgery. Catherine, Clayton’s wife, finds herself attracted to Mike, and when family life becomes unbearable, she turns to him for help and support; they fall in love. Clayton become obsessed ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #20, The Surgeon’s Wife, a novel read by the author, installment 2 appeared first on Story in Fiction.

Mike Boudreaux is the chief of surgery at a prominent New Orleans hospital when he is called upon to make tough decisions about his partner, Clayton Otherson, a distinguished and influential surgeon who is making life-threatening mistakes in surgery. Mike owes his career to Clayton and wants to help his colleague and friend. Catherine, Clayton’s ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #19, The Surgeon’s Wife, a novel read by the author, installment 1 appeared first on Story in Fiction.

The daughter of a well-respected portrait painter confronts the reaction of the community to the series of nude portraits her father painted of a young woman and must respond to rumors the town has disseminated based on more than a few carnal interpretation of the paintings. The daughter, as her father’s business manager, scrambles to ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #18, the short story “The Thirteen Nudes of Ernest Goings”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A former college roommate Peter comes to university to interview and Tony and his wife Amanda invite the roommate to dinner. Tony’s attraction and always unstated affection for Peter intensifies. The couples, at a sit-down dinner, listen as guest Peter tells a story of sexism and poorly disguised misogyny. Tony must decide whether or not ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #17, the short story “Curse of a Lonely Heart”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

The younger daughter of a mother battling against the society and humanity with misdirected fervor that when her first grandchild dies in the womb of her elder daughter, the mother seeks vengeance on erroneously perceived injustice; her younger daughter realizes she is of age and must make decisions that her mother does not agree. Finalist ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #16, the short story “The Activist”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

An insecure, uptight, assistant professor of English denies his suppressed attraction to a precociously arduous and passionate student in his evening noncredit creative writing course with twisted consequences that could deny his desire to be full professor. Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. Finalist, (top six) Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. This story ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #15, the short story “The Perennial Student”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A Chinese girl abducted and imported illegally into the syndicated New Orleans sex trade befriends one of her handlers scheming to escape and fulfill her dreams of living the American dream—like she knows from seeing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. After many attempts to gain freedom, she finally succeeds in escaping but not to ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #14, the short story “Suchin’s Escape”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

An older couple with deep caring for each other live together unmarried and take an extended tour of India where they befriend a married couple, the wife who insists on wearing an expensive and ostentatious multicarat-diamond necklace on tour that is stolen with repercussive consequences that make the unmarried couple realize the value of love ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #13, the short story “The Necklace”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A lonely grocery store manager hires a seriously disabled boy to collect wheeled shopping-carts and becomes involved in false accusations, injustice punishment, unexpected caring, and painful loss. Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. This story and thirty-two others are available online free for listening or reading, and download: https://www.storyinliteraryfiction.com/stories-novels An Illustrated print version ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #12, the short story “The Cart Boy”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A half-crazed, homeless con-man meets a young girl grieving for her father killed in a plane crash and is faced with the dilemma whether to persist in a scam when truth is called for. Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. Finalist, (top six) Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. This story and thirty-two others ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #11, the short story “Facing Grace with Gloria”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

A Socialite’s philandering physician husband goes to a medical meeting and when he doesn’t return she must face the humiliating pain of friends’ sympathies and the discovery of betrayal by her closest friend Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. This story and thirty-two others are available online free for listening or reading, and ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #10, the short story “The Golden Flute”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

During the French Revolution, a fatherless apprentice iron-monger carries his mother, dying of a throat lump, to a cathedral near the sea to find a miracle to save her, and is gifted with many miracles that will shape his future. Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. This story and thirty-two others are available ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #9, the short story “The Miracle of Madame Villard”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

The time is late nineteenth century, the place “A Barnum and Bailey’s Circus on tour just ten years after the civil war. DiDi, one of the performing dwarf falls in love with Lazlo, the five-foot one trapeze sensation and rejects the amorous attention of the diminutive attendant of her midway act. She learns about the ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #8, the short story “Homunculus”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.

An arrogant, self-centered audiovisual technician is fired for incompetence, his wife leaves him and he courts and marries the rich widow of an owner of a used-car lot. When his first and only love becomes ill, he hard-headily makes uninformed decisions about her health care with disastrous consequences for all. Finalist in the William Faulkner ... Go To Episode The post Podcast #7, the short story “Nemesis”, by William H. Coles appeared first on Story in Fiction.