The characters in these quirky intelligent stories hoist the banner of solitude and misfit wit from the vast remote recesses of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.Young lovers discern self-revealing events in celestial skies. A man recounts his affectionate history with his 200-lbs mastiff, named Father. Tired workers nurse their hangovers before a loud local bar serves up contemplations of a brother’s tour in Iraq. Happy Rock brushes the dust and snow from the micro-verses of small towns and strange lives surrounded by the great outside.

Happy Rock

Literature & Fiction

Simmons, Matthew

Literary

Dark Coast Press

<p>In this story of restoration, Matthew Simmons breaks free of constraints and dives headlong into his journey from failure to faith. Negative self-image has a way of contorting the divine image of God within each of us. In God's Only Mistake, Matthew unveils his compelling, real-life story of how Jesus untangled his negative self-image to show that he was not "a mistake", but a masterpiece. Whether you are a Christian or not, this book is for you. It will help set you free to become all that you were destined to become.</p>

God's Only Mistake: A story of rejection, redemption and a restored faith in God.

Biographies & Memoirs

Blurb

<p>"Rarely is a writer so recklessly and deliciously weird also so warm, so approachable, and so -well, lovable. To praise Matthew Simmons' work for its tremendous invention, its hilarity, its joyful incongruity is easy enough. These stories possess all of these qualities in abundance. But they also do the thing that Wallace Stevens once insisted that fiction should: they give pleasure. More of it than I have received from any contemporary collection in a long, long time." -Matthew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine</p>

The In-Betweens

Civil Coping Mechanisms

Last Call: Heaven or Hell

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

Spirit Touched

Genre Fiction

Fire & Ice Young Adult Books

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