Ten Stories by Paul Cumbo

Ten Stories by Paul Cumbo

INSIDE TEN STORIES.

A young girl at the zoo comes face-to-face with a four-hundred-pound gorilla that seems to be in on her guilty secret.

When they steal a bike from a reclusive neighbor's shed, three middle school boys discover a history of tragic loss in their Adirondack town.

A collegiate swimmer who's never been fooled by boys discovers that she's fooled herself over one: the young philosophy professor who swims in the university pool.

When his older cousin meets a seductive woman in a 1969 Thunderbird, a boy gets a revealing look at the thrill of teenage life.

A young state trooper carries a diamond ring in his pocket across an Arizona desert highway, hesitant to make his move, until circumstances speed things up.

A veteran literature teacher comes to grips with the true power of final chapters on his last day in the classroom.

Awash in the excitement of a lucrative first job, a fresh-faced college graduate gets a dose of reality on the streets of New York.

Set in varied landscapes, these ten short stories provide glimpses of humanity from a multitude of angles. They tell of men, women, children, and families at different stages of life's journey: beginnings, endings, and stops along the way. Each portrays ordinary people at extraordinary moments - both joyful and tragic - that shape their experience of the world.

Paul Cumbo is an English teacher, rowing coach, and director of domestic and international service programs at Canisius, a Jesuit high school for boys in Buffalo, New York. He began his educational career in 2001 at Georgetown Prep, a Jesuit boarding school in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served on the residential faculty and taught English for three years. He lived in Scotland while earning a postgraduate degree in creative writing and fiction at the University of St. Andrews before returning to Buffalo in 2005, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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ISBN 13	9780988208629
ISBN 10	0988208628
Title	Ten Stories
Author	Paul Cumbo
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	One Lane Bridge
Year published	2013-07-22
Number of pages	164
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