The Christmas Tales of Bob Comenole
In 2007, Mr. Comenole began publishing chapters of Christmas fiction in installments in several newspapers, trying to revive the periodical tradition of Dickens and others. This edition brings together these tales. There are stories of European immigrants, adventurous children, mystical fishermen, homecoming veterans, and many others. The stories, shaped in the tradition of magical realism, are just the sort of thing to put you in the mood for old time mystical Christmas literature.
Watchman, Tell Me of the Night
Set in 1969, Watchman follows a 19 year old soldier returning from Vietnam. His father has disowned him because he recently put in for Conscientious Objector status. On a train from San Francisco to NY, he meets four mysterious and intriguing characters, each of whom has suffered a significant loss in life. There is a legendary folk singer (a female Dylan) traveling incognito, a numinous merchant of Christmas ornaments, a 75-year old British veteran of WWI, and a runaway girl in her teens.
They bond as an ensemble, and begin to share their stories of loss. By the end of the cross country trip, each in turn—with the help of the others—receives healing or redemption. At the end of the journey, the narrator reconciles with his father. On its surface, the story is presented with realism, but there are enough unexplained, magical events sprinkled throughout to center it within the warm tradition of mystical Christmas literature.
By The River Christmas
Just before Christmas, a teen-age burglar breaks into a home he believes empty, but is actually occupied by a shut-in, an 87-year-old woman. After he has filled his sack with jewelry, but before he flees, the robber—noting the woman’s serious physical limitations—ends up helping her set up her holiday decorations. This begins a real but reserved bonding between the two. Nevertheless, he flees with a coffee can filled with $50,000 of the woman’s savings. The boy then encounters several mystical figures: an old man out alone on a frozen river, a destitute little girl selling lighters, and a young woman in the country illegally, about to be deported. From each he learns something very subtle about self-interest and self-sacrifice. He ends up defending the Little Lighter Girl from other brutal thieves and facilitating the reunion of the illegal alien’s own grandmother who’d just arrived from Mexico. Slowly he makes his way back to the elderly woman’s house, where he returns the money he’d stolen, and unwittingly coordinates the salvation of the old man on the river. He then turns himself in for the robbery; when he is released from jail the young man takes the old woman, now a friend and confidant, on a spectacular ride aboard his ice boat, something she has always dreamed of...
Four Floors in Old Baltimore
(The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre)
A woman who believes she is to blame for a fatal fire withdraws from society and lives, alone, behind a statue in the niche of a church. An orphan who had narrowly escaped the fire, now mortally afraid of all light and movement, retreats to the dark caverns and storehouses beneath the city’s business district. A man whose son died in the fire, Clement Craggogre, becomes a bitter figure, and pours all his energy into increasing his wealth, which is only a means to achieve his overarching desire: to rid himself of all human contact.
On Christmas Eve, 1895, Clement Craggogre serves eviction notices on three tenants who live below him: immigrant families from Ukraine, Morocco and Italy. This begins the process of foreclosing on all the property adjoining his. Ultimately, Clement collides with a shrewd, homeless girl who lives in the tool shed behind his home. And it is through her intervention that he undergoes a supernatural experience—intertwined with relatives, living and dead, of all three families he had evicted. This experience leads to a succession of unexpected miracles, and, finally, to his redemption. And his deliverance leads to the salvation of the underground boy and guilt-ridden woman who had been so long isolated from humanity.
Written with a 19th Century feel, The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre is a story about destiny and the ability of others to impact the lives of those who have cut themselves off from humanity, whether through fear, guilt or anguish. The book also hosts a full ensemble of other quirky characters who contribute to the adventures of the main cast.
The Keeper of Small Things, or The Journey to Nome, Bodø, Luleå & Beyond, a children’s tale
On the day the writer of this book was invited to address the students at Sherman School as a guest author, a major blizzard closed the school. And so, in the free time of that snowday he wrote this tale, featuring the children of Sherman school
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Watchman, Tell Me of the Night
Set in 1969, Watchman follows a 19 year old soldier returning from Vietnam. His father has disowned him because he recently put in for Conscientious Objector status. On a train from San Francisco to NY, he meets four mysterious and intriguing characters, each of whom has suffered a significant loss in life. There is a legendary folk singer (a female Dylan) traveling incognito, a numinous merchant of Christmas ornaments, a 75-year old British veteran of WWI, and a runaway girl in her teens.
They bond as an ensemble, and begin to share their stories of loss. By the end of the cross country trip, each in turn—with the help of the others—receives healing or redemption. At the end of the journey, the narrator reconciles with his father. On its surface, the story is presented with realism, but there are enough unexplained, magical events sprinkled throughout to center it within the warm tradition of mystical Christmas literature.
By The River Christmas
Just before Christmas, a teen-age burglar breaks into a home he believes empty, but is actually occupied by a shut-in, an 87-year-old woman. After he has filled his sack with jewelry, but before he flees, the robber—noting the woman’s serious physical limitations—ends up helping her set up her holiday decorations. This begins a real but reserved bonding between the two. Nevertheless, he flees with a coffee can filled with $50,000 of the woman’s savings. The boy then encounters several mystical figures: an old man out alone on a frozen river, a destitute little girl selling lighters, and a young woman in the country illegally, about to be deported. From each he learns something very subtle about self-interest and self-sacrifice. He ends up defending the Little Lighter Girl from other brutal thieves and facilitating the reunion of the illegal alien’s own grandmother who’d just arrived from Mexico. Slowly he makes his way back to the elderly woman’s house, where he returns the money he’d stolen, and unwittingly coordinates the salvation of the old man on the river. He then turns himself in for the robbery; when he is released from jail the young man takes the old woman, now a friend and confidant, on a spectacular ride aboard his ice boat, something she has always dreamed of...
Four Floors in Old Baltimore
(The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre)
A woman who believes she is to blame for a fatal fire withdraws from society and lives, alone, behind a statue in the niche of a church. An orphan who had narrowly escaped the fire, now mortally afraid of all light and movement, retreats to the dark caverns and storehouses beneath the city’s business district. A man whose son died in the fire, Clement Craggogre, becomes a bitter figure, and pours all his energy into increasing his wealth, which is only a means to achieve his overarching desire: to rid himself of all human contact.
On Christmas Eve, 1895, Clement Craggogre serves eviction notices on three tenants who live below him: immigrant families from Ukraine, Morocco and Italy. This begins the process of foreclosing on all the property adjoining his. Ultimately, Clement collides with a shrewd, homeless girl who lives in the tool shed behind his home. And it is through her intervention that he undergoes a supernatural experience—intertwined with relatives, living and dead, of all three families he had evicted. This experience leads to a succession of unexpected miracles, and, finally, to his redemption. And his deliverance leads to the salvation of the underground boy and guilt-ridden woman who had been so long isolated from humanity.
Written with a 19th Century feel, The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre is a story about destiny and the ability of others to impact the lives of those who have cut themselves off from humanity, whether through fear, guilt or anguish. The book also hosts a full ensemble of other quirky characters who contribute to the adventures of the main cast.
The Keeper of Small Things, or The Journey to Nome, Bodø, Luleå & Beyond, a children’s tale
On the day the writer of this book was invited to address the students at Sherman School as a guest author, a major blizzard closed the school. And so, in the free time of that snowday he wrote this tale, featuring the children of Sherman school
The Christmas Tales of Bob Comenole
In 2007, Mr. Comenole began publishing chapters of Christmas fiction in installments in several newspapers, trying to revive the periodical tradition of Dickens and others. This edition brings together these tales. There are stories of European immigrants, adventurous children, mystical fishermen, homecoming veterans, and many others. The stories, shaped in the tradition of magical realism, are just the sort of thing to put you in the mood for old time mystical Christmas literature.
Watchman, Tell Me of the Night
Set in 1969, Watchman follows a 19 year old soldier returning from Vietnam. His father has disowned him because he recently put in for Conscientious Objector status. On a train from San Francisco to NY, he meets four mysterious and intriguing characters, each of whom has suffered a significant loss in life. There is a legendary folk singer (a female Dylan) traveling incognito, a numinous merchant of Christmas ornaments, a 75-year old British veteran of WWI, and a runaway girl in her teens.
They bond as an ensemble, and begin to share their stories of loss. By the end of the cross country trip, each in turn—with the help of the others—receives healing or redemption. At the end of the journey, the narrator reconciles with his father. On its surface, the story is presented with realism, but there are enough unexplained, magical events sprinkled throughout to center it within the warm tradition of mystical Christmas literature.
By The River Christmas
Just before Christmas, a teen-age burglar breaks into a home he believes empty, but is actually occupied by a shut-in, an 87-year-old woman. After he has filled his sack with jewelry, but before he flees, the robber—noting the woman’s serious physical limitations—ends up helping her set up her holiday decorations. This begins a real but reserved bonding between the two. Nevertheless, he flees with a coffee can filled with $50,000 of the woman’s savings. The boy then encounters several mystical figures: an old man out alone on a frozen river, a destitute little girl selling lighters, and a young woman in the country illegally, about to be deported. From each he learns something very subtle about self-interest and self-sacrifice. He ends up defending the Little Lighter Girl from other brutal thieves and facilitating the reunion of the illegal alien’s own grandmother who’d just arrived from Mexico. Slowly he makes his way back to the elderly woman’s house, where he returns the money he’d stolen, and unwittingly coordinates the salvation of the old man on the river. He then turns himself in for the robbery; when he is released from jail the young man takes the old woman, now a friend and confidant, on a spectacular ride aboard his ice boat, something she has always dreamed of...
Four Floors in Old Baltimore
(The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre)
A woman who believes she is to blame for a fatal fire withdraws from society and lives, alone, behind a statue in the niche of a church. An orphan who had narrowly escaped the fire, now mortally afraid of all light and movement, retreats to the dark caverns and storehouses beneath the city’s business district. A man whose son died in the fire, Clement Craggogre, becomes a bitter figure, and pours all his energy into increasing his wealth, which is only a means to achieve his overarching desire: to rid himself of all human contact.
On Christmas Eve, 1895, Clement Craggogre serves eviction notices on three tenants who live below him: immigrant families from Ukraine, Morocco and Italy. This begins the process of foreclosing on all the property adjoining his. Ultimately, Clement collides with a shrewd, homeless girl who lives in the tool shed behind his home. And it is through her intervention that he undergoes a supernatural experience—intertwined with relatives, living and dead, of all three families he had evicted. This experience leads to a succession of unexpected miracles, and, finally, to his redemption. And his deliverance leads to the salvation of the underground boy and guilt-ridden woman who had been so long isolated from humanity.
Written with a 19th Century feel, The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre is a story about destiny and the ability of others to impact the lives of those who have cut themselves off from humanity, whether through fear, guilt or anguish. The book also hosts a full ensemble of other quirky characters who contribute to the adventures of the main cast.
The Keeper of Small Things, or The Journey to Nome, Bodø, Luleå & Beyond, a children’s tale
On the day the writer of this book was invited to address the students at Sherman School as a guest author, a major blizzard closed the school. And so, in the free time of that snowday he wrote this tale, featuring the children of Sherman school
Watchman, Tell Me of the Night
Set in 1969, Watchman follows a 19 year old soldier returning from Vietnam. His father has disowned him because he recently put in for Conscientious Objector status. On a train from San Francisco to NY, he meets four mysterious and intriguing characters, each of whom has suffered a significant loss in life. There is a legendary folk singer (a female Dylan) traveling incognito, a numinous merchant of Christmas ornaments, a 75-year old British veteran of WWI, and a runaway girl in her teens.
They bond as an ensemble, and begin to share their stories of loss. By the end of the cross country trip, each in turn—with the help of the others—receives healing or redemption. At the end of the journey, the narrator reconciles with his father. On its surface, the story is presented with realism, but there are enough unexplained, magical events sprinkled throughout to center it within the warm tradition of mystical Christmas literature.
By The River Christmas
Just before Christmas, a teen-age burglar breaks into a home he believes empty, but is actually occupied by a shut-in, an 87-year-old woman. After he has filled his sack with jewelry, but before he flees, the robber—noting the woman’s serious physical limitations—ends up helping her set up her holiday decorations. This begins a real but reserved bonding between the two. Nevertheless, he flees with a coffee can filled with $50,000 of the woman’s savings. The boy then encounters several mystical figures: an old man out alone on a frozen river, a destitute little girl selling lighters, and a young woman in the country illegally, about to be deported. From each he learns something very subtle about self-interest and self-sacrifice. He ends up defending the Little Lighter Girl from other brutal thieves and facilitating the reunion of the illegal alien’s own grandmother who’d just arrived from Mexico. Slowly he makes his way back to the elderly woman’s house, where he returns the money he’d stolen, and unwittingly coordinates the salvation of the old man on the river. He then turns himself in for the robbery; when he is released from jail the young man takes the old woman, now a friend and confidant, on a spectacular ride aboard his ice boat, something she has always dreamed of...
Four Floors in Old Baltimore
(The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre)
A woman who believes she is to blame for a fatal fire withdraws from society and lives, alone, behind a statue in the niche of a church. An orphan who had narrowly escaped the fire, now mortally afraid of all light and movement, retreats to the dark caverns and storehouses beneath the city’s business district. A man whose son died in the fire, Clement Craggogre, becomes a bitter figure, and pours all his energy into increasing his wealth, which is only a means to achieve his overarching desire: to rid himself of all human contact.
On Christmas Eve, 1895, Clement Craggogre serves eviction notices on three tenants who live below him: immigrant families from Ukraine, Morocco and Italy. This begins the process of foreclosing on all the property adjoining his. Ultimately, Clement collides with a shrewd, homeless girl who lives in the tool shed behind his home. And it is through her intervention that he undergoes a supernatural experience—intertwined with relatives, living and dead, of all three families he had evicted. This experience leads to a succession of unexpected miracles, and, finally, to his redemption. And his deliverance leads to the salvation of the underground boy and guilt-ridden woman who had been so long isolated from humanity.
Written with a 19th Century feel, The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre is a story about destiny and the ability of others to impact the lives of those who have cut themselves off from humanity, whether through fear, guilt or anguish. The book also hosts a full ensemble of other quirky characters who contribute to the adventures of the main cast.
The Keeper of Small Things, or The Journey to Nome, Bodø, Luleå & Beyond, a children’s tale
On the day the writer of this book was invited to address the students at Sherman School as a guest author, a major blizzard closed the school. And so, in the free time of that snowday he wrote this tale, featuring the children of Sherman school
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| BN ID: | 2940013829640 |
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| Publisher: | Three Hermits Press |
| Publication date: | 12/10/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 347 |
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