Daniel Koehler

• Jan-2012
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In "Mister Barnes or Mister Noble?" a timid woman stands up to an overbearing man who is harassing her lifelong friend. In "The Bear in the Mimosa Tree," two children, out of boredom, seek out the "crazy man" i...

• Nov-2010
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In these three moving stories, a daughter learns the truth about her institutionalized mother, a boy's misunderstanding of basic cosmetic anatomy and his mother's obliviousness to his plight causes humiliation for them both, and a man's guilt over hi...

• Sep-2010
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Bank president HENRY POTTS has a sweet deal. He is looting his bank under the guise of a cost-cutting "Unbank" marketing campaign concocted by JOHN JIMPSON, his son-in-law with a roving eye for bank secretaries. Enter CLYDINE CLUMM, a honky-tonk ange...

• Aug-2010
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In 1962, three intersecting crimes—a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping—lead to tragedy, secret sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance.ADELE FORTENBERRY, an educated, professional woman, and WILLIE BAKELEKOS, a much-you...

• Aug-2010
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The Atonement Killer is killing young women along Interstate 40, and all the FBI has is a tenuous profile -- a religious zealot bent on ritualistic sacrifice. However, when a small town female cop, JOLENE DYKES, crosses paths with the killer, the FBI...

• Aug-2010
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Once we learn to read for pleasure, we become "book folk." These three tales point out the humor and the pitfalls of pursuing the literary life.A bookstore coffee klatsch turns into a battle of the sexes, two screenwriters retali...

• Aug-2010
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Three stories with three memorably unbalanced narrators. Meet Brose, a professional legal entity for hire, who suddenly finds his lucrative anonymity threatened when a friend buys an RPG for him on Avenue C and 13th Street. Then there's Ophelia, whos...

• Aug-2010
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What bubbles up in your consciousness when faced with the extremity of death, either yours or others with whom you interact? The theme of the individual in extremis links these three stories, each singular in its account of the moment we all know we ...

• Aug-2010
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In these three moving stories, a daughter learns the truth about her institutionalized mother, a boy's misunderstanding of basic cosmetic anatomy and his mother's obliviousness to his plight causes humiliation for them both, and a man's guilt over hi...

• Jul-2010
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J.D. CROWELL, the President's campaign manager, is fired after an indiscreet dalliance with a beautiful biracial White House staffer. He soon discovers he has become a very inconvenient person for both the corrupt GOP President and the popular birac...