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Falling in Love and Other Misadventures
Life consists of adventures, big and small. Love and satisfaction, in its many forms, don’t always come easy, as these tales of ordinary people in their searches for happiness attest. Real life, a bit of fantasy, love gone bad, the thrill of adventure gone astray, the mystery of lucid dreams—they are all present and accounted for.
227 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2019
About the author
L. Wade Powers
10ÌýbooksAs a growing boy, I was fascinated with nature: snakes, insects, birds—anything that crawled, walked or flew. A PhD in zoology from the University of Texas in 1975 took me to New York to teach and also to work with the American Museum of Natural History. After forty years in higher education as a professor and dean, I retired in Oregon and began the journey down a different road of passion: literature. My first novel, The Home, is a memoir-fantasy about coming of age in a California foster institution. Other novels and short story collections have followed, spanning diverse genres: adult contemporary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This includes a few poems and a play.
Under my formal name, Lawrence W. Powers, I published technical articles in the clinical laboratory sciences, in marine biology and animal behavior, and on western culture and history, the latter primarily in the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library. I penned three articles for the online Oregon Encyclopedia, a critical essay on Steinbeck for the Steinbeck Review, and wrote a screenplay for a documentary about bird migration in Oregon (Fields of Splendor).
I currently live in Eastern Oregon with an incredibly beautiful and talented spouse and surrounded by numerous deer, racoons, quail, and lots of other wild things, including a few neighbors. My latest project is completing last book of the futuristic SurrogaCity trilogy, designated for release by late 2025. Please visit my website, lwadepowers.com, for more detail, to comment or ask questions, and an opportunity to receive a free short story or novel excerpt.
Under my formal name, Lawrence W. Powers, I published technical articles in the clinical laboratory sciences, in marine biology and animal behavior, and on western culture and history, the latter primarily in the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library. I penned three articles for the online Oregon Encyclopedia, a critical essay on Steinbeck for the Steinbeck Review, and wrote a screenplay for a documentary about bird migration in Oregon (Fields of Splendor).
I currently live in Eastern Oregon with an incredibly beautiful and talented spouse and surrounded by numerous deer, racoons, quail, and lots of other wild things, including a few neighbors. My latest project is completing last book of the futuristic SurrogaCity trilogy, designated for release by late 2025. Please visit my website, lwadepowers.com, for more detail, to comment or ask questions, and an opportunity to receive a free short story or novel excerpt.
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July 23, 2019
How to describe so diverse a collection of short fiction? Between these covers, the reader finds 22 stories of romance, humor, suspense, sci-fi, and sober reflection on the stuff of life and death.
Powers has peopled his quirky tales with a cast of characters who are sometimes deceptively ordinary: an Air Force trainee pursuing his first sexual encounter; a ten-year-old boy shoplifting a roll of Life Savers candy; a self-conscious woman trying to escape a nightmarish first date; a young door-to-door encyclopedia "consultant" seeking his first sale.
On the less ordinary side are the man willing to risk all in his exploration of lucid dreaming; the attractive alien taking a job as a waitress in a country diner; the man seeing ghost birds no one else can.
All of these stories---these "misadventures"---are vehicles for the author's wry observations of the human condition. They become reflections on love and death and the passage of time. Powers holds up a mirror before the reader: The joys and sorrows and fears we see are our own. Kudos for a masterful work!
Powers has peopled his quirky tales with a cast of characters who are sometimes deceptively ordinary: an Air Force trainee pursuing his first sexual encounter; a ten-year-old boy shoplifting a roll of Life Savers candy; a self-conscious woman trying to escape a nightmarish first date; a young door-to-door encyclopedia "consultant" seeking his first sale.
On the less ordinary side are the man willing to risk all in his exploration of lucid dreaming; the attractive alien taking a job as a waitress in a country diner; the man seeing ghost birds no one else can.
All of these stories---these "misadventures"---are vehicles for the author's wry observations of the human condition. They become reflections on love and death and the passage of time. Powers holds up a mirror before the reader: The joys and sorrows and fears we see are our own. Kudos for a masterful work!
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