verna & other short stories

Do you remember looking for work, when anyjob would do, and you traveled from city to city, staying at the YMCA for a dollar a night whilesearching. What are the chances you believe inangels? Or have you ever come to an understandingwith animals? You may know the couple in ＂OldFolks’ Romance.＂ Or perhaps you have lost a childand can relate to the fantasy of ＂Verna.＂ Was therean eventful Christmas you look back on with alaugh? How about the mistakes you made, and theregrets of a mid-life crisis?Should any of these concepts strike a chord, thenthese stories are written for you. All tales have away of evoking memories, these will reawakenyours.

Gerry Pratt wrote for the Toronto Telegram, while it still existed, and The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Ontario, as well as The Vancouver Sun in British Columbia. He was fired from The Seattle Times because he misspelled Syracuse. He finally ended up at The Oregonian, where he wrote the column ’Making The Dollar.’ Additionally, The Oregonian assignments took him to most parts of the world and many of the eventual wars of the late twentieth century. He is the youngest of a family of eleven children. Gerry’s other books include God is Blue and other short stories, Love Never Dies, In Search of a Hero, and The Merchants.