A Necessary Introduction to the Peculiar: Stories

• Main Author: Sullivan, Robert Edward
• Format: Others
• Published: PDXScholar 2015
• Subjects: Choice (Psychology) > Fiction; (Psychology) > Fiction; Life > Fiction; Fiction
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2357; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3361&context=open_access_etds

In this collection, the typical and the peculiar collide with the necessary and familiar. Where life, love, and loss, are random quantum elements that may or may not hold the universe together. Some of these stories explore characters that are a bit off, a tad quirky, underdogs trying to find something to hold on to. From musing about the atomic bomb and Hubba Bubba gum, to jogging at the speed of a particle in the Hadron accelerator, or ruminating on the awesome power of the sit-com, to taking a selfie with co-workers in the dark, to what bored kids do to preserve memories, this collection connects the absurd and the mundane, the universal and particular. These stories deal with choices and events that have the potential to change lives and shape character. And whether it's breaking the record for highest jump in a mattress outfit, longing for meatballs, what the downtown bus hub can teach, secret tattoos, cutting off your pinkie to save a relationship, or whales on the high sea, this collection oscillates between the random and the significant in order to enlighten or at least to entertain.