SOON TO BE RELEASED: "A View From the Borderline"

Exciting news! I am releasing an anthology of short stories, A View From the Borderline on Ingram Sparks Publishing. Release date is
February 5, 2020

Here is the blurb:


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In A View from the Borderline: A Collection of Short Stories (Ingram Sparks), acclaimed author Charles Souby affirms his “powerful, empathetic study of place and character” (Kirkus Reviews), gift for dark humor, and insight into troubled and twisted human minds. Set in Hollywood, Chicago, and nameless Midwestern small towns between the 1970s and the present, the 20 stories introduce an eclectic cast of characters who range from quirky to deranged; misguided, wild, lost, and warped to varying degrees. The “borderline” men and women include:

·      Davenport, a recently retired investment advisor, who hatches a plot to poison pigeons in a park across the street to frame his apartment neighbor Mrs. Goldberg.

·      Leonard, a plodding AAA clerk off on a psych leave and a regular at the local racetrack bar, whose knack for picking winning horses tragically collides with his weakness for boozy redheads in “Silver Slum Dog.”

·      Mrs. Rosewood, whose audacious plan to expose her dry cleaner as a thief—with the help of a can of lighter fluid—gets the attention of a hostage negotiator in “The Plaid Golf Pants.”

·      Stephen, a remedial student at a second-rate prep school, who, in the summer of 1973, becomes infatuated with a sweet but troubled 14-year-old runaway scheduled to be committed to an asylum for marijuana use and sexual promiscuity in “Christa’s Case - A View From the Borderline.”

Charles Souby draws his fictional characters and situations from a wide range of personal experiences.