W. Jack Savage

• Jan-2021
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Of Darker Matter explores the consequence of things and often the serendipity of life that seems to ignore our ill-advised flirtations with disaster, of crimes committed and justice meted out, of failed revenge and self-imposed punishments that in th...

• Jul-2013
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The High Sky of Winter's Shadows by W. Jack Savage is a collection of thoughts, reminiscences, eyewitness accounts and random opinions gleaned from journals, various notebook entries, graduate school projects, letters and at least two previous attemp...

• May-2012
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Some men seem to have all the luck. Others dream of only finding a little. Richard Smiths world was the orphanage. It was the only one he knew. All of the other worlds for children, of mothers and fathers and a place called home, he learned from the ...

• Aug-2011
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From an Embassy in Europe to an Industrial Park in Suburban Los Angeles, The Petorik Thesis and Tales of The Global West resembles a ledger where the checks and balances agree to disagree. In this, his second short story collection, W. Jack Savage ch...

• Aug-2010
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Haskell coach Will Durand is forced to use benchwarmers to finish out the regional basketball final. They pull off the biggest comeback in tournament history and the Bobcats earn a spot in the state tournament. But when the substitute star makes a di...

• Jul-2010
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But for bad luck, Cal Daniels might have gone somewhere in life. Instead he wound up a forty-year-old overnight grocery stocker and ex-con living in his Uncle Bills back apartment in Temple City. Over a beer one morning after work, Cal meets a woman ...

• Feb-2010
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From a Southeast Asian jungle where the greatest safety is as close to the danger as you can get, to a suburban backyard where a neighbor's cat moderates a wounded man's personal crisis to communicate, Bumping and Other Stories is all over the map. J...