When reading novels as a child, I visualized the characters in the settings and the actions of the scenes. The books that come to mind as I write this are The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. Similarly, Gary Carr’s characters and scenes in his four stories in Furies’ Daughters (Four Feisty Women) became alive as I read each one. Jenny, Krissy, Sarah, Margot and Thea, “feisty” as they are, show courage and are endowed with the strength to do more than survive. I connected with each woman as they negotiated physical, emotional and in one case political struggles and indeed, tragedy. For me, the reader/observer, I silently cheered and whispered to each: Keep letting them know that you are alive and no one to mess with.
Jess Nadelman, author of Slow to a Trickle (and other stories)
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Furies’ Daughters: Four Feisty Women is published by Lightwood Press.
Jenny Gets Her Wheels On is the story of a wheelchair-bound comedian and comes from what I know about theater, comedy performers, and life.
The Girl with the Topaz Ring is a mystery rom-com in which a woman reveals she’s more than one who sits at an office computer.
The Ongoing Life of Margot Macomber imagines what might have happened to Margo immediately after the shooting of her husband in the Hemingway short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
Thea and Fritz: Berlin 1931-1933 traces three years in the lives of Germany’s most famous screenwriter/director teams, Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang,
Furies’ Daughters (Four Feisty Women) stories by Gary Carr is available through the author’s website: GaryCarrauthor.com or through contacting the publisher, Lightwoodpress.com by going to our contact link and setting up a payment.
Gary Carr is a writer of plays and short fiction. His work has appeared in Big Pagoda, SFist, The New Fillmore, Lightwood, Callboard, The Metaworker, and The Journal of Irreproducible Results. His “The Ongoing Life of Margo Macomber” appeared in History Through Fiction magazine. His collection of short fiction, The Girl Who Founded Nebraska, was published by EXIT Press (San Francisco.) His book on one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten,” was published by UMI Press (Ann Arbor.) Plays include Bocque’s Blues, Jenny Gets Her Wheels On, about a wheelchair-bound stand-up comic, and Phyllis Wheatley, The Poet Who Wrote Her Way Out of Slavery. His new book of short stories, Furies’ Daughters: Four Feisty Women is published by Lightwood Press. He holds a Ph.D. in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. In San Francisco, he owned a publicity firm that specialized in arts and entertainment. He now lives in North Texas.
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