AFTER HOURS, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II

With After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, St. Augustine's resident prose poet, William Williamson is back with volume two following the first book, Last Call, Selected Bar Prose. The focus is still in St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, a town not as well known for its revelry or debauchery like Key West or New Orleans but since its founding 450 years ago, there have always been bars, saloons, pubs and taverns where hungry and thirsty souls came for food, spirits, company and entertainment. Almost five centuries later, it's not the sleepy carriage town of the past, neon lights and signs have replaced lanterns at the grog houses downtown, on the beach and the strip malls, beckoning those who wish to come in their doors to taste and share the night. After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, the second compilation of twenty years of work chosen from fifteen different prose books written by William Williamson, captures the gauntlet of behavior and emotions, the conversations and moments that is found in places where people congregate to drink, sharing their life with friends and shedding their skin to strangers. Laughter, loneliness, longing, sadness, boredom, the possibility of someone entering your life or walking out of it, changing your yesterday, the good memories we remember and the bad times we would rather forget, permeates, again, throughout William's latest book of prose.

William Williamson is the author of SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, the first two novels of his Florida Keys trilogy. The final novel, SOME CAME NAKED has a publication date for 2017. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and seventeen books of prose poetry. Bar Snatch Tonight We’re Serving Insanity for Supper A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals Millennium Maladies Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight Last Call, Selected Bar Prose After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons, a Poet is on his Own At Odds with the Flavor of the Union First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur Last Night of the Orphan Poems Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked You’ll be my Monkey and I’ll be the Proudest Palm Tree You ever Seen William’s books are available in both paper and as E-books at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. To read more of William’s work, visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com Check William out @Facebook.com