A Third Bridge
  • Published:
    Dec-2020
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    eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    135
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Humans are known for their strange behavior, both entertaining and deadly. They often compete unknowingly with writers for the most outlandish stories possible. If they have money, they can pay someone to help them deal with the consequences. Gilbert Forbes is available as a fixer, a gofer, a negotiator and a private investigator, a job description printed on a card he sometimes gives to clients. Work comes his way from his brother, Art Forbes, an attorney who handles the worst cases in his firm. Gilbert's clients reveal themselves unwittingly, some don't even know or care. In this collection of ten stories, Forbes is hired to dispose of snuff films, keep a very smelly man out of a cafe, and investigate and remove squatters in an art installation that is about to fall into the hands of Russian gangsters. In two stories, he has to contend with a society house painter whose restorations fill houses with noxious fumes, then he doodles on the client's artwork. Gilbert also works in the suburbs, where he counsels a young family that made a ghastly mistake after winning the lottery. In the same suburbs, Gilbert provides protection for a journalist investigating a neighborhood that is digging up their backyards looking for Satan. Not finding Satan, Gilbert moves on to monitor an ex-priest and his substantial inheritance, then delivers an ex-con to a dialogue deprived lawyer and novelist. Gilbert has the last word.Reviews for my book of stories, I Shot The Hairdresser.The deadpan tone of I Shot The Hairdresser resonates profoundly with the shell-shocked pre- & post-Generation Xers. Each short story is highly filmable. Brilliant work, impossible to stop reading. Susan Smith Nash TAPROOT REVIEWS 7/8Kafka came to mind right away because of Gilbert's little piece called Penal Colony. If I were an English teacher, I would anthologize it right next to its famous namesake.Gerald Burns, Another Chicago Magazine (28)
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