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Tony Jarvis may have been the most distinctive private school headmaster of the past half century, if not in the history of American schooling. He was for thirty years headmaster of Boston's Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous operation in the United States, founded in 1645 by the Puritan divine John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians. Roxbury Latin School today is a school of 300 boys in grades seven through twelve, and it is annually ranked among the best, and sometimes the best, scholastically performing school in the United States. But its scholastic performance, though impressive, is probably the least interesting thing about the school, which states its mission to be a place "where every boy is known and loved." In the year 2000 Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at the Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard Memorial Church wrote, "The Reverend F. Washington Jarvis and the Roxbury Latin School over which he has presided for a quarter of a century are each anachronisms and proud of so-being; and in the crowded field of private secondary education in North America both stand out because neither fits in." The "not fitting in" is a beautiful and inspiring story.

"Fasten your seatbelt. You are about to be transported by a master storyteller . . ." - Jayne Adams, author of For All the Right Seasons In this debut collection of short stories, John W. MacIlroy delights in teasing the moment when everything changes, when the reader suddenly and completely knows the heart of each character and the fullness of the human experience. That slip may be gentle, air-brushed with a sly and lighthearted wink in stories like "The Closer," "Customer Service," and "McAllister's Asterisk." Or it may creep in after a slow roll, then slash across the final pages in bold strokes in stories like the award-winning "Duke's" and "Three Buses, Waiting." And in others, like "The Painting" and "The Man Inside," things unseen - whispered in the shadows and along the margins - suddenly explode in surprising ways, burrowing deep into the reader's soul. In the tradition of writers like Richard Ford, Christopher Tilghman and T.D. Johnston, these stories find in place an essential element of a good story. We find ourselves in a forgotten New England factory town; in a midwestern colonial along a street lined with tall oaks, middling ambitions and short mailboxes; and in a tired cemetery along the Mississippi where the hushed voices of the buried dance among the live oaks. And in the way of the Southern writer, these, and the other full-bodied stories in the collection, embrace the harsh gravitational pull of the past. And where they land - well, as the writer Jayne Adams warns, "Buckle up. You're in for a ride . . .""MacIlroy weaves these riches together with the skill of a born storyteller gifted with a poet's eye." - Douglas Campbell, winner of the Able Muse Write Prize

This sixth volume in the acclaimed anthology series of short fiction from Short Story America contains thirty excellent new short stories by today's authors, including award-winning writers like Gregg Cusick, Martin McCaw, Marjorie Brody, T.D. Johnston, and Nancy Allen, among many others.

"As he proves emphatically with his new collection, T.D. Johnston is clearly one of the modern masters of the short story."-James Dodson, Editor, O. Henry Magazine Author Marjorie Brody writes of the dozen tales in Friday Afternoon and Other Stories: "This is an important collection. Powerful, provocative, and significant. To read a T.D. Johnston story is to plunge head first into the world of unforgettable characters, 3-D experiences, and stunning surprises." Memorable in the fashion of a favorite music album, Friday Afternoon and Other Stories is an eclectic series of powerful tales which, in the words of author Eric Witchey, "focus on the American experience in a way that reveals the many facets of our souls." The diversity of these stories, ranging from humor to tragedy, from epiphany to comeuppance, from history to the future, reflects the variety of conflicts and experiences present in the human condition.

This collection of 33 new short stories is the fourth volume in the acclaimed Short Story America series. Short Story America is known for its eclectic literary fiction, and this volume continues the great contemporary tradition established by this superb independent press. Featuring stories by Jodi Paloni, Eric Witchey, Gregg Cusick, Ray Morrison, Marjorie Brody, Richard Hawley, T.D. Johnston, Nim Stevens, Mathieu Cailler, Eryk Pruitt, Douglas Campbell, Lawrence Buentello, Kathleen Gerard, Warren Slesinger, T.D. Storm, Lindsey Simmons, C. Steve Johnson, Guy J. Tirondola, Paul Michel, Michael Matson, Jon Zech, James Goertel, Atwood Boyd, Manny Floresca, John Smistad, Martin McCaw, William R. Hincy, Stephen Eoannou, pdmac, John Wallis and Meg Kimmel.