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What Kind of Fool? and Other Short Stories

Author: Jay Thomas Willis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-01-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1669861546

This book contains twenty-four short stories from what the author considers the best stories from seven of his other books of short stories. These stories have been revised and re-edited. They come in part from his life experiences. They mimic his life experiences, but in no way are a direct depiction of those experiences. They are far from reality, and more like the author’s fantasies about what could have happened.

What Kind of Fool

Author: Rhonda McKnight

Publisher: Urban Books

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1599832682

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Angelina Preston tunes out the voice of God when she decides to divorce her husband, Greg. She's forgiven him for his affair, but she won't forget, even though her heart is telling her to. Shortly after she files divorce papers, she finds out her non-profit organization is being investigated by the IRS for money laundering. In the midst of the very public scandal, Angelina becomes ill. Through financial and physical trials, she learns that faith and forgiveness may really be the cure for all that ails her, but can she forgive the people who hurt her most? Sexy, successful Dr. Gregory Preston didn't appreciate his wife when he had her. His affair with a devious man-stealer has him put out of his home and put off with women who continue to throw themselves at him. Greg wants his wife back, but he'll have to do some fancy operating to get her. When the secrets and lies from his past continue to mess up his future, Greg finds himself looking to the God he abandoned long ago for a miracle only faith can provide. Samaria Jacobs finally has the one thing she's always wanted: a man with money. The fact that she's in love with him is a bonus, but even so, life is anything but blissful. She's paying for her past sins in ways she never imagined and living in fear that the secret she's keeping will separate them forever.

The Right Kind of Fool

Author: Sarah Loudin Thomas

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1493428144

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Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined. The first person those ripples disturb is Loyal's absentee father. When Creed Raines realized his infant son was deaf, he headed for the hills, returning only to help meet his family's basic needs. But when Loyal, now a young teen, stumbles upon a murder it's his father he runs to tell--shaping the words with his hands. As Creed is pulled into the investigation he discovers that what sets his son apart isn't his inability to hear but rather his courage. Longing to reclaim the life he abandoned, Creed will have to do more than help solve a murder if he wants to win his family's hearts again.

Sexual Storms

Author: Jay Thomas Willis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1669876136

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This is a novel about a young man coming of age in an isolated-rural area of East Texas. He grew up, went to college, to the military, to graduate school, and then moved to a South Suburb of Chicago. He grew up doing farm chores from sunup to sunset. There was little time for social or recreational pursuits. He was however able to finish his high school education and go on to college. Because his father retired when he was sixteen, he was lucky enough to receive a stipend from Social Security that helped him to attend college, as they say, the rest is history. He details several scenarios about his sexual experiences as they propel him into his destiny.

Fool

Author: Christopher Moore

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0061974773

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“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

I Got My Reparations

Author: Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-04-22

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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“I Got My Reparations: You Can Get Yours Too,” is a nonfiction book about how the author got his reparations. It details how his family was poor and had a slave and sharecropper’s mentality. They were also plagued with mental illness and other problems. He attended a school that existed on a shoestring budget. He graduated by the skin of his teeth. He graduated college with a B average, went to the military, graduate school, and settled in a South Suburb of Chicago. He lives in a nice house, has two decent cars, and sent his two sons to college—both are doing well for themselves. The author details how he was able to make it by utilizing various governmental programs. He suggests that if you work hard enough, you can get yours just as he did.

Country Boy

Author: Jay Thomas Willis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1669876209

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“Country Boy: Way Down Home” is a book of sayings, thoughts, and ideas. These thoughts came from the author’s own cerebral processes. He simply sat down over a period of many months and forced his conscious and subconscious mind to produce these ideas. They are meant to inspire and to motivate. You will find them interesting, captivating, entertaining, and stimulating. It took him seventy-five years to accumulate the wisdom that went into the writing of this book. Some of these sayings are short and curt, some are longer, but you will find all of them memorable. These thoughts are meant for those individuals who have come to a crossroad and ready to do some serious thinking about their life. Mostly the author has written some words to live by.

The Fool and Other Moral Tales

Author: Anne Serre

Publisher: Les Fugitives

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838014155

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'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is arguably the smartest trick of all.' From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales, in which kernels of trauma, loss, loneliness and obsession are glimpsed through the glittering gauze of fiction. 'The Fool' may have stepped out of a tarot pack - to walk a mountain trail or worm his way into a writer's mind. 'The Narrator' proposes his mirror image, a storyteller in sheep's clothing, who has a bone to pick with language. The power of narrative to trump a stark reality is perhaps at its strongest in the last story; in 'The Wishing Table' the orgiastic antics of an incestuous family are recounted by one of three daughters. A dream logic rules each of these unpredictable, sensual, and surreal stories: romps no doubt, yet deeply moral, and entirely unforgettable ones.

Fool on the Hill

Author: Matt Ruff

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0802193625

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From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus “in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit” (Alison Lurie). Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. A bestselling author in search of a new story, he sees his life as a modern-day fairy tale starring himself as a would-be knight trying to woo a lovely maiden—or, actually, two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. But he’s not quite in control of the narrative. There’s another writer with even greater influence on campus. The unseen Mr. Sunshine is an eternal, semi-retired deity who’s been fashioning his own story for centuries. He has all his characters in place: dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine’s world comes to fabulous and violent life, how can Stephen decide his own fate if it’s already being plotted by a god? An epic of life and death, good and evil, love and sorcery, Fool on the Hill lands Matt Ruff happily on the shelf between Tom Robbins and J. R. R. Tolkien for every lover of the “funky and fantastical” (New York magazine). “Inspired . . . rich in flavorful language . . . [a] dazzling tour de force.” —San Francisco Chronicle “The plot comes together like a brilliant clockwork toy.” —Locus

King's Fool

Author: Margaret Campbell Barnes

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2021-02

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 145663643X

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A Remarkably Intimate Tale of the Intrigue, Ruthlessness, and Majesty of Henry VIII's Court. When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed a front-row seat to history. With a seat near the throne and an ear to the floor, Somers witnesses firsthand the dizzying power struggles and sly scheming that marked the reign of the fiery Tudor king. Somers watches the rise and fall of some of the most enigmatic women in history, including the tragic Katherine of Aragon, the doomed Anne Boleyn, and Mary Tudor, who confided in the jester as she made the best of the fragile life of a princess whom everyone wished was a prince. Based on the life of the real Will Somers, King's Fool is infused with Margaret Campbell Barnes' trademark rich detail and historical accuracy. This intimate peek into the royal chambers gives readers a unique view on one of the most tumultuous periods in English history. First published in 1959 by world-renowned historical novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes, King's Fool is a remarkable insider tale of the intrigue, ruthlessness, and majesty of the Tudor court. When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed a front-row seat to history.