Angus Brownfield

• Apr-2016
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Some of Angus Brownfield's collection of nineteen short stories are told with tongue in cheek and some acknowledge the regret that comes of learning through sobering experience. One narrator is faintly hysterical, another trying to avoid the rat race...

• Nov-2015
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This is the third book of The Libertine trilogy. A mature Robert Gattling is unprepared for his mate of 26 years, Mardi Johnson, dying before he does. Just apprised of her decision to stop treatment for cancer, he is assailed by a woman he has been o...

• Oct-2015
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Bread to the Wise is Book I of The Libertine trilogy. In 1964 Robert Gattling is an assistant vice-president at a prestigious university, a wunderkind. By 1972 he's a janitor. Bad things end a life-long lucky streak. He begins recovering his mojo whe...

• May-2015
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Pushed to the point of mayhem, mathematical genius Donald MacDonald is booted by a high tech megalith and embarks on a new career: art. He gains a public following chalking large drawings on downtown sidewalks while he embarks on a mission to pai...

• Apr-2015
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Quincy happens upon Annie at a party he was reluctant to attend. His reluctance turns to eagerness when he discovers Annie plays all the tunes he ever wanted to sing. The girl of his dreams, or is this just too good to be true?...

• Dec-2014
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Artemis, angered by the actions of King Agamemnon, stops the wind, bottling up the Greek fleet waiting to sail for Troy. To placate her, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter. He delays as long as he can but must consider the consequences for himself...

• Dec-2014
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Kermit O'Doyle, a paraplegic, works as an analyst on the China desk of the CIA's Economic Analysis Unit. He's tasked with discovering why the Chinese are flooding the US with designer hi-tops that sell for less than canvas sneakers. Everyone wants th...

• Jul-2014
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Where am I? The question is paramount. In total darkness, at the side of a dirt road, Richard is paying for breaking up an instance of domestic abuse outside an Albuquerque saloon. Attacked by the woman he thought he was rescuing and then by two of h...

• May-2014
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• Mar-2014
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Josh, longing for the freedom of his rowdy hotrodding days, takes the ultimate muscle car for a joy ride. He drives it off a cliff but miraculously survives, rescued by Debra, a girl too young to drive but not too young to appreciate a cool guy like ...

• Nov-2013
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Beseeched by a pair of Mexican boys on the Day of the Dead to assist their kin with a broken-down pickup, Californians newly crossed into Mexico are puzzled by the encounter until they learn the true nature of their visitors....

• Jun-2013
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On the brink of fifty, Robert Gattling runs away to Mexico in a custom Mercedes motor home, searching for something he can't define. After a harrowingly close call on a narrow bridge, he encounters two itinerant Mexican teenagers-violent, belligerent...

• Apr-2013
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Traditional cosmology turns upside down in Angus Brownfields' fable about degrees of good and evil among humans. Told in multiple voices -- human, angelic and demonic -- An Angel at Satan's Ball begins when the Almighty bets Satan that His distinguis...

• Nov-2012
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The setting's an oasis on the upper Sonoran Desert. There are rattlesnakes pouncing, tarantulas threatening and hawks divebombing the residents of the Lost Colony. And that's the easy stuff. The talking mice of the colony also have to contend with...

• Nov-2012
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It ain't easy, being a talking mouse. Add to that a bum leg and a couch potato figure, you have Dorothy Mustt, heroine of Angus Brownfield's novel, Pool of Tears, first book of the Mustt Adventure series.Talkers, as they call themselves, are the prod...

• Nov-2012
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The Scrivener's Tale, sequel to Angus Brownfield's Pool of Tears, finds the brightest of Stedwell Institutes' strain of talking mice, Dorothy Mustt, sold into captivity by her former love. Burned once from trusting a human, Dorothy nonetheless grows ...

• Aug-2012
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Carlos Robertson asks his long-time friend, Fredrick, for help with a problem of the heart. There are two women, one a lover, one a friend, but accidents of time, space and the flesh are obscuring the distinction in his feelings. Fredrick's advice is...

• Aug-2012
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What happens when genetically enhanced lab mice learn to talk and use their opposable thumbs? Rodent Dorothy Mustt and her fellow companions do just this in Angus Brownfield’s Prime Directive: The Collected Mustt Adventures. Managing to escape from...

• May-2012
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Billy Kurtz wants to be a writer, but his life is so dull, so juvenile. So he finds a way to eavesdrop on other people's lives . . . only to discover some folks don't care to contribute to his education....

• Oct-2011
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Perfection of the life, perfection of the work: is it an either/or choice? Must a person forswear one to attain the other? Byeford Pritchett wants both. He wants to live a life free of the creator's angst while turning out a work of art worthy of the...

• Jul-2011
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Jacob Gleason, restless youth seeking his destiny, is a moral blank slate when he stumbles upon Abrupt Edge, a Nevada wilderness Shangri La. It’s centerpiece is Carne Viva, a brothel for billionaires seeking sexual enlightenment. Edge Enterprise’...

• Jun-2011
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In a bar, a down-and-outer relates a tale from his former life in order to win the sympathy of another patron, who plies him with drinks. The arc of his story aims downward, until the other patron, thoroughly depressed, leaves money for the down-and-...

• Jun-2011
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One day master mechanic Rigoberto Calder?n incurs the wrath of God. He has long had two wives, one openly, one covertly. God and the good folk of San Mart?n look the other way. That fateful day he boasts to a gringo motorist whose truck he's mendi...

• May-2011
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She's Got Her Own is about self-discovery, about Lizzie Mae Brown, a woman obsessed with finding the True Mother and True Father of her dreams. In her search she encounters lawyers and bikers, avarice and selflessness, and links that click into pl...

• Apr-2011
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• Mar-2011
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Timing. Bad timing. Married too young, married before all the possibilities can be explored, Jack and Carol Bishop part ways but after the raw wounds heal become friends. Meanwhile, Jack maintains a perpetual letch for Lorna, Carol’s bridesmaid...

• Feb-2008
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Conrad and Margot, having driven the length of Mexico from the States with two small children, are crossing the border between Mexico and Guatemala at Christmas time. He has hunting weapons, and permits from all the interveneding countries to carry t...

A young man, Jarvis, is canvassing for the Gallup polling organization when he encounters Howard, a subject who alarms him. The man turns the interview around, asking Jarvis about his most interesting “customers.” Howard swears he knew Ja...

Mustapha is young and unmarried. He works diligently, preparing and selling hummus from a stall in the medina. One day Annisa, a newcomer to Meknes, offers him a proposition: marry her and she will share with him her secret recipe for outstanding hum...

A fable in the manner of Aesop involving a very sharp poodle and a very smug crow, and that's all I can tell you without repeating the story word for word, even though the publisher has a rule saying this has to be fifty words long which it now is....

A man of advanced years falls in love for the last time, only to be rejected by his lover for reasons he struggles to understand. In a monologue reminiscent of a Kafka character’s, the protagonist reflects on the history of his life as seen as ...

Quentin Davies, a boyish lawyer, is considered by some of his fellow citizens in Tombstone to be a lovable pain in the neck. Others find him simply a pain in the neck. He defends Mexicans and Indians, and his detractors fear he will put foolish ideas...

Two bachelor friends, Alfie and Phil, spend a Sunday afternoon tapering off from a boozy St. Patrick’s day and talking about Alfie’s sudden fixation on the social commentator, Fran Lebowitz. The conversation takes a sudden serious turn, p...

Till Dimas, San Francisco police detective, attributes his uncanny sense of smell to an Apache ancestor. His partner, Felix (“Dude”) Durand, will never forget the homicide case Till solved in record time relying in large part on his sensi...

Before there were humans, a handsome young hare named Fine Ears was sitting on the prairie gazing at two moons: Big Sister and Little Sister. He is joined by a very large white hare named Big, who is adept at predicting the future. Big explains why t...

Sophie Larkin, an elderly woman living alone, receives a computer as a gift from her youngest son and internet service from the rest of the family. In time she goes from fearing the system to mastering it. And finally she becomes so dependent on it t...

A jealous mobster approaches a hitman—regarded as the best in his line of work—to eliminate a rival for his lady love’s affections. The project violates several of the hitman’s self-imposed rules, but when he declines, the mob...