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A Year of Wonder
Come with the grandfather/grandson writing team of Jerry Peterson and John Smith as they take you from such distant places as a DMV office in Minnesota to a backyard in Wisconsin. In the first-"The Purple Paper Eater"-everything goes awry when Smith tries to renew his driver's license and encounters a clerk who has an appetite for paper. In the second, "Digging in the Dirt", one of Peterson's favorite characters from his John Wads crime novellas investigates the coldest of cold cases, the century-old murder of an infant found buried in a backyard garden. Peterson and Smith offer up 24 short stories and poems in this collection that follows the months of the year. Enjoy.
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A Year of Wonder
Come with the grandfather/grandson writing team of Jerry Peterson and John Smith as they take you from such distant places as a DMV office in Minnesota to a backyard in Wisconsin. In the first-"The Purple Paper Eater"-everything goes awry when Smith tries to renew his driver's license and encounters a clerk who has an appetite for paper. In the second, "Digging in the Dirt", one of Peterson's favorite characters from his John Wads crime novellas investigates the coldest of cold cases, the century-old murder of an infant found buried in a backyard garden. Peterson and Smith offer up 24 short stories and poems in this collection that follows the months of the year. Enjoy.
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A Year of Wonder

A Year of Wonder

A Year of Wonder

A Year of Wonder

Overview

Come with the grandfather/grandson writing team of Jerry Peterson and John Smith as they take you from such distant places as a DMV office in Minnesota to a backyard in Wisconsin. In the first-"The Purple Paper Eater"-everything goes awry when Smith tries to renew his driver's license and encounters a clerk who has an appetite for paper. In the second, "Digging in the Dirt", one of Peterson's favorite characters from his John Wads crime novellas investigates the coldest of cold cases, the century-old murder of an infant found buried in a backyard garden. Peterson and Smith offer up 24 short stories and poems in this collection that follows the months of the year. Enjoy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781539396635
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 10/23/2016
Series: Stories I Like to Tell , #4
Pages: 218
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jerry Peterson writes crime novels and short stories set in Kansas, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Before becoming a writer, he taught speech, English, and theater in Wisconsin high schools, then worked in communications for farm organizations for a decade in Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, and Colorado.

Peterson followed that with a decade as a reporter, photographer, and editor for newspapers in Colorado, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.
Today, he lives and writes in his home state of Wisconsin, the land of dairy cows, craft beer, and really good books.

John Smith, a sophomore at the University of Iowa, is majoring in liberal arts. There, he's a member of the national championship improv troupe, Paperback Rhino. And he also does a Friday night stint-at midnight-on radio station KRUI 89.7 FM.

Smith writes short stories, poetry, plays, and film scripts. Inspired by Steve Martin, he also plays the banjo.

He comes from a family of performers and musicians. Smith's sister Maggie teaches at Second City in Chicago and performs there. And his other sister, Sarah, is in New York University's film program. Both have been interns in the Hollywood film and television industries.
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