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Lorin Cary
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Literary Fiction, Academic, General Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Humour, History
Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos (2024), Lorin Lee Cary’s latest book, links his interest in flash fiction with his love of photography. His stories have appeared in various journals, including Corvus Review, Fiction on the Web, Horror Sleaze Trash, Impspired, and 101 Words.
Cary’s other books include The Custer Conspiracy (Book Baby, 2009), California Dreaming (Scarlet Leaf, 2017), and (based on interviews with Lu Chi Fa) My Good Fortune: Memoir of a Chinese Orphan’s Success in America (BookLocker, 2019).
His interest in photography began as a kid and blossomed in later years. He has won awards for images in Nantucket, Toledo, Las Vegas, and Cambria. Photos have been published in Typehouse Magazine, Crux, and Carolina Muse.
Previously, Cary taught Labor and Social History at the University of Toledo and, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In addition to many articles and essays, he co-authored No Strength Without Union: Ohio Workers 1803-1980 (Ohio Historical Society, 1982) and Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1776 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Both won the Ohio Academy of History’s Distinguished Book Award.
Lorin Cary's books
Quick and Quirky, Stories and Photos
Read Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos and laugh out loud. It’s an absurd world, and humor is at hand in this collection of flash fiction short stories.These fast reads introduce some unique characters, including a superhero with a flatulence issue and a man diagnosed as “bland.” The photos provoke laughs as well. How about a “No Fishing” sign on a dock filled with fishermen or a cemetery with a “No Passing” sign in front of it?
“A clever collection that provides an effective combination of brevity and wit.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos represents the concept of flash fiction at its best….” —Midwest Book Review
“Well-crafted, beautiful….A stunner.” —The Prairies Book Review
California Dreaming
Whacky Herb and Dipsey Donna agree to drive to California in Herb's old Plymouth, towing his "free-wheeling," homemade trailer. Along the way, they meet a slew of strange but amiable characters, each of whom, though facing Donna's pistol, gives some writerly advice about the story until Herb and Donna decide it's time for the story to end. Lots of wry and much laugh-out-loud humor.