Mango Summers - Softcover

Theresa Foley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966885422 ISBN 13: 9780966885422

Publisher: KWAC in association with Perky Press, 2001

A collection of Key West-themed short stories, wonderful reading about the Southernmost Island in the United States.

MANGO SUMMERS
A Third Collection of Short Stories from The Key West Authors' Coop

Key West. A drifter's paradise where the down on their luck can find a place in the sun, make a quick buck and maybe even get lucky in love. For a night, no doubt; for a lifetime, maybe. Hippie haven, run down shack-mansions and hard times made softer by the blueness of the perfect sea. The down-and-out arrive by plane, boat or bus, having been taunted by the flirting image of that old tease Key West all the way south.MANGO SUMMERS is the third collection of short fiction from the same writers' collective that produced ONCE UPON AN ISLAND and BEYOND PARADISE. Key West writers from the first two books, J.T. Eggers, Rosalind Brackenbury, Allen Meece, Robin Orlandi, Theresa Foley, William Williamson and Kirby Congdon, are joined by seven new writers, all of whom live on and draw their inspiration from the tropical paradise at the literal end of the road.

"Key West has always lured writers to the dead-end of the Florida Keys chain. This collection is a testament to the newest group who continues to find creativity and inspiration among the island's back streets and alleys, moldy barrooms and marinas. It's a mix of romance and danger; it covers more emotional territory than a Florida panther in search of its next meal."

Annie Dillard
Author of Teaching a Stone to Talk
and Living by Fiction

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From the Publisher:

Mango Summers, the third collection of short stories from the Key West Authors’ Coop, will be published January 1, 2002. The book features 15 Key West writers and becomes part of a series that includes Beyond Paradise, published in 1999, and Once Upon An Island, in 1997.

The Key West Authors’ Coop was founded by six writers in 1995. In KWAC’s seven years, more than two dozen writers have been associated with it. Each of the books is focused on Key West or the Keys. KWAC is a loosely organized group that has birthed three books out of a love of the craft of writing, a sense of community and much hard work by a few individuals.

“Mango Summers promises to be the best book yet out of KWAC,” commented Theresa Foley, one of the writers and the book project manager. “There are funny stories, sad stories and moving stories. Some of my favorites are the ones that recall the wild days of the 1960s from Bob Mayo and Allen Meece. The stories from Rosalind Brackenbury and Margit Bisztray are poetic and lovely. And there are a few disturbing pieces. Death, whether it’s a person or a whale, as in Barb Bowers’ piece, seems to enter into more of the tales than in previous books.”

Author Annie Dillard, a famous Key West resident and writer, commented on Mango Summers: “Key West has always lured writers to the dead-end of the Florida Keys chain. This collection of short stories is a testament to the newest group who continues to find creativity and inspiration among the island’s back streets and alleys, moldy barrooms and marinas. It’s a mix of romance and danger; it covers more emotional territory than a Florida panther in search of its next meal.”

Mango Summers will be available in outlets in the Florida Keys and on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com in January. KWAC will make the book available separately or in a set of three with the other two KWAC short story collections, Beyond Paradise and Once Upon an Island. Mango Summers is $9.95 retail and discounts are available for large orders.

From the Author:

William Williamson, one of the contributing authors to Mango Summers, is the author of SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, the first two novels of his Florida Keys trilogy. The final novel, SOME CAME NAKED has a publication date for late 2014. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. Those books are available at bookstores in the Keys and online at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and sixteen books of prose poetry.

Bar Snatch
Tonight We're Serving Insanity for Supper
A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals
Millennium Maladies
Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day
A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight
Last Call, Selected Bar Poems
A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us
A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips
Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons, a Poet's on his Own
At Odds with the Flavor of the Union
First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found
Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur
Last Night of the Orphan Poems
Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked
You'll be my Monkey and I'll be the Proudest Palm Tree You ever Seen

To read more of William's work, visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com Check William out @Facebook.

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