Book Description
Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fund-raiser by authors Jan Chandler, Shawna Chandler, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to funding cancer research! These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke’s collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph.
From the Author
The Acorn Gathering is the long-awaited spin-off from
The Acorn Stories, a story cycle set in the fictional West Texas town of Acorn, published in 1998. Some of the tales in
The Acorn Gathering continue plots from
The Acorn Stories. The others use a variety of new settings and characters. This collection stands on its own, giving readers any background details they might need about the characters, so readers need not start with
The Acorn Stories. Five writers joined me in contributing stories to this project. I invited the authors to share their talents and their vision. The resulting anthology provides a variety of voices more diverse than I ever created with my fictional narrators, yet more cohesive than I ever imagined. My original idea of setting all the stories in my fictional West Texas town of Acorn proved too limiting. Still, the writers paralleled each other’s stories with similar themes, issues, conflicts, and chance encounters. That cohesive echoing seemed especially surprising to me, since most of the authors wrote their stories before reading the other stories.
