Frankie & Johnny, & Nellie Bly: Fifteen Stories About What Never Was And Never Will Be - Paperback

by Richard Wolkomir (Author)

Here are fifteen dispatches from imagination's hinterlands.

Wand-slingers cast death spells, at the OK Corral.

An alien appears on Main Street, in a barber's chair.

Atlanteans, up from an abandoned Manhattan subway tunnel, confront an ace pickpocket.

A Florida swamp wizard takes water-moccasin form.

As one reader, in the United Kingdom, put it:

"Quirky and engaging - a fantastic storyteller with a brilliant imagination. I was sorry to finish the book. Well worth your time."

Sure, and speaking of time, in the far future, when the technology is biological, and cities are made of living cells....

Author Biography

Richard Wolkomir has worked as a laundry sheet folder, zoo bear-cub keeper, roofer, groundskeeper, newspaper reporter, and writer of award-winning articles and essays for such magazines as Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. Now he's writing novels--fantasies, mysteries, and thrillers--with speculative stories appearing in a variety of literary journals. Visit him at www.richardjoycewolkomir.net.