Jack Kline publishes family-and-friends’ Christmas collection
Added: (Thu Nov 14 2019)
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Winner of several distinguished creative-writing awards, Jack Kline—the Blowing Carbon (2009) col-lection and the 1930s Kansas City private eye novel But Not for Me—has laid down some seasonal tales, humorous to poignant, in his new Christmas Branches:
Is the man in the ’49 Mercury, performing rescue and relationship mending, really St. Nick?
Brother and sister devise scheme to bulwark Santa-belief for kid-cousin with a result that astounds them all.
Best-selling author, in a remote and solitary setting, patches up a trapped animal and perhaps his own humanity.
On the road to his parents’ for Christmas Day a preacher’s son plays Good Samaritan, yielding a magical, timely message from scripture.
Scrawny tree, bodacious tree, will a family’s sensitive responses save Dad from a financial moment of weakness?
How a coyote family, following the bright star over Bethlehem, plays a key role in the birth of a special human pup.
The best laid plans… a mémoire from Papa Jack going ‘Clark Griswold’ in bringing the family Tannebaum back to the homestead.
Plus a Hallmark Moment train ride, maturation in Chicago thanks to a fortune cookie, Golden Christ-mas remembrance of a loved one, a Phil Morris (But Not for Me) Christmas story, thirteen memorable, seasonal short stories in all.
Link to Christmas Branches’ Amazon page:
http://bit.ly/2PKmINY_Christmas_Branches_Print