Postcard Tales: Short Stories from Truth to Spoof About Airplanes, Animals, And Kids

by Rory A. Hansen

Overview

The initial inspiration for this book of short stories started from stories I would write on the back of postcards. The postcard pictures would provide a launching point for an imaginative tale. A story seemed like a more fun way to send a greeting than just saying, "Having a good time, wish you were here!" There's not much room on the back of a postcard, so I would write as small as possible and use every square millimeter of space. On later travels, I would bring along a little notebook and use writer's license to create a little color to my adventures. However, sometimes my adventures were enough of an adventure to just tell the story as it happened. This book is a compilation of entertaining stories from real life to animal life to a "bit" of imagination. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543970579
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	05/14/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	110
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Rory Hansen has spent a lifetime in aviation. He was a Navy carrier pilot, Learjet demonstration pilot, airline pilot, and general aviation experimental aircraft pilot. He built and flies two kit experimental airplanes. Writing and photography have been a lifetime passion. Before becoming a professional pilot, he was a full time kid and still hasn't grown out of that.

Amanda was born in the U.K. and has been drawing since the age of six. She immigrated to the U.S. A. as a young adult and earned a degree in fine art. She is now a naturalized citizen. Amanda has painted in watercolor, oil, pastel and acrylic mediums over the years as well as painting wall murals in businesses around the southwest U.S. This is her first book illustration project.

Table of Contents

Stories from the Imagination

1 An Elk Story 1

2 Northern Lights 4

3 Goofy Moose 6

4 Emergency Landing 8

5 Elfin Cove 10

6 Anahoeemanukoogawf 12

7 The Big Wave 13

8 Kona Mocha 15

9 Speedbird 17

10 Podmots 19

11 Bear Train 23

12 River Adventure 25

13 Kartchner Caverns 29

14 McKattle 32

15 Caution - Kids! 34

16 Zebra Stripes 36

Stories from the Cockpit

1 Backfield in Motion 41

2 Foggy Night 44

3 Guest Captain 47

4 Domo Arrigato No Comunicado 50

5 Hosed! 54

6 The King and I 58

7 Weather Forecast…Favorable! 61

8 Unforgettable 68

Stories from Nature's Wonders

1 Birds of a Feather 75

2 Puddles 78

Stories from Life

1 Sea Hunt, Kid Style 83

2 Predawn Rendezvous 86

3 Incident in Steamboat 88

4 Dive Japanese Style 91

5 Kilimanjaro 95