Redgunk tales Book

Redgunk Tales brings together the award-winning short stories of William Eakin, a fast-rising star in the science-fiction world. Set in Redgunk, Mississippi -- a town with a population of 400-some-odd people, a dog with black, smelly lips, and a mummy -- these interwoven stories owe as much to Sophocles as they do to Flannery O'Connor, capturing the heart of the human condition in a miasma of swamp gas and lawnmower fumes. Redgunk is a place where Otis Zebrowsky, cable television repairman, can suddenly be sucked into a mythic world older than ancient Greece, through which he reconciles himself with his own manhood; where intelligent women like Mina Thorton can find absolute happiness in the guise of a made-to-order alien mate, yet hurl it all away. In these stories of ghosts, flying saucer abductions, and genetic experiments gone awry, immersed in a setting piled high with junk, singing with cicadas, crawling with kudzu, and as redneck as any in the South, we encounter -- suddenly, unexpectedly -- real people, real heart, the absolute beauty of being human.