I’m very pleased to announce the release of my latest book, Brain Frieze: ‘Barnaby Goes Home’ and 20 more stories of humor, mystery, sci-fi, and the mind, four days ahead of its April 1 publication date. (No, this is not an April Fool’s joke.)
The teeming masses of my readership can find it on the Mulberry Knoll publisher’s site here, where there’s an up-to-date link for purchasing it on Amazon.
These stories are quite varied in style and content, but I think they’re all pretty entertaining. I’m hoping readers will find them satisfying and suitably off the mainstream. I write in many voices, and as a matter of fact, I apparently write about voices as well, so a goodly chunk of the spectrum of human personas may be found in the collection, from a zombie to God (or someone who thinks he is, or used to think so, or used to think he isn’t).
There’s a more marketing-like description of the book on Mulberry Knoll’s book page (click on the cover), but for readers curious about what’s in it, here’s the table of contents (below the fold):
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Barnaby Goes Home . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 5
The Knock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Journalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Interview with the Zombie . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Our Lady of the Ellington . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Meaning of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
The Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Hoobner on the Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
16 Degrees of Correlation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Little Torments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rocky Mtn High [performance 1] . . . . . 167
The CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Am Not / Am [performance 2] . . . . . . . 201
Another Threnody of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Writing in Restaurants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Deaths in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
No Brainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
The Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Glass Onion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Also by Allen Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
So far, the top-rated stories are “Barnaby Goes Home,” “Little Torments,” “Underground,” and “Deaths in the Family.”
Thanks for reading!