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SHORT FICTION BY WILLIAM GEUSS

Finding the Way Home 
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Buy any of my 99 cent short stories on Amazon and *post a review*, then message me and I'll send you *Dumpster Days*, a 152 page
coming of age novella set in Lakeview and Downtown Chicago (priced
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A collection of stories that resonate and linger about compelling characters who
travel within the US and abroad to open their hearts to new possibilities. Chicago is a way station or home as their paths take them as far as Darwin, Warsaw, Naples, Frankfurt, Berlin, Seattle and Buenos Aires; a capstone novella references each of the preceding eight short stories. (click on titles or browse this site)

The stories: Beyond Buenos Aires (budget cuts in Chicago schools and the resulting 
marital turmoil prompt a married couple to escape to Buenos Aires over Easter break); 
Stray Dog in New Buffalo
  (an adolescent girl flees the conflicting expectations in her 
immigrant family in Chicago); 
Flying the Coop
 (a couple resigned to the consequences of choosing careers 
over children gets a surprising second chance); 
It Happened in Warsaw
 (the mysterious discovery of a battered cello in Warsaw 
proves fateful for a musicologist of Polish descent);
Neapolitan Nights (the death of her parents frees a never-married teacher to 
pursue her dream of traveling to Italy);
Distant Thunder (a handsome Australian resurfaces in Chicago with a new
  identity and focuses on the wealth of a vulnerable female); 
Death Along the Des Plaines River
 (the claims of career and family clash as a recently widowed police officer copes with raising his young son near Chicago); 
Death Along the Main River (a couple retires on the same day and finds that the distance in their marriage can no 
longer be ignored); 
and in the novella Dumpster Days a young translator chooses Chicago to find his place in the world in this coming-of-age story.

Get Finding the Way Home from Amazon Kindle.  Total length: ca 289 pages.
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   Reviews on Amazon:
   To  the Quick
 
 December 21, 2013 By Lester  Jacobson 
  Geuss is a terrific writer. These stories hone in
  on what makes people tick, right down to the quick – dirty fingernails and all.
  He has a facility for both character portraiture and story development. Like
  Nelson Algren and Mike Royko, two other hard-boiled Chicago writers, he knows
  the local color palette cold and captures the city's and its citizens' essence
  beautifully.

  Cosmopolitan
  December 28,  2013  By Judith 
  I enjoyed the stories very much and felt each one had something interesting
  to say about the human condition and, in particular, the interaction of 
  Americans with 'abroad', and of foreigners with America. 
  The settings are varied and cosmopolitan.
  Finally, I enjoyed revisiting characters and places from the shorter 
  stories in the more extended 'Dumpster Days'.

Other Reader Comments:
March 10, 2014 By Christine Merritt 
Geuss has a great gift - the ability to use his words well in telling a story. 
His short stories are superb and totally engage the reader. We want to read more. 
An enjoyable, fascinating read and a total delight.

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