“What He’s Poised to Do”–the first story in this collection–presents a business man who leaves his wife and son to travel to the city for work purposes. The business man stays in a hotel where he mets a female bartender. They connect and the result is a torrid love affair. The end of the story leaves the reader wondering if the business man will return to his wife and son or stay with his new-found love.
Most of the stories in What He’s Poised to Do explore the twists and turns of relationships between men and women. The lies, the half-truths, the simmering violence all fuel Ben Greenman’s stories where love almost always. goes wrong.
If you want to try to solve the mysteries of intimacy, infidelity, and romance gone wrong, What He’s Poised to Do will take you down some strange labyrinthian pathways. GRADE: B
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
What he’s poised to do — 1
Hope — 5
Barn — 13
Against Samantha — 31
Hunter and the hunted — 41
From the front — 55
Seventeen differents ways to get a load of that — 63
Down a pound — 81
Govindan Ananthanarayanan Academy for moral and ethical practice and the treatment of sadness resulting from the misapplication of the above — 93
Country life is the only life worth living : country love is the only love worth giving — 101
Bunch of blips — 111
To kill the pink — 123
What we believe but cannot praise — 135
Her hand — 167
Acknowledgements — 171
Never heard of him before, but I’m always willing to try a new short story writer.
Jeff, Ben Greenman writes some distinctive stories.
Well, these stories look right up my alley.
Patti, if you’d like copy of WHAT HE’S POISED TO DO, just let me know and I’ll mail it to you.
Doesn’t sound like my cup of tea, but more power to him.
Fred, I’m reading short stories of various styles right now. I have some SF in the on-deck circle.
I prefer stories that have resolutions! I’ll keep this in mind if I want to read about infidelity, but I’m not sure I will!
Bob, there’s a lot of infidelity going around!
Well, look at all the infidels!