Jim Prime deploys both memory and imagination in these short stories that take you from his youth on Long Island, Nova Scotia to the pitcher’s mound at Fenway Park in Boston, and even deep into the North Atlantic’s turbulent waters. Some tales are true and others…should be.
The book includes a special bonus: the first chapter of the long-awaited sequel to Fish and Dicks, the raucous stories of two fish-gutters and detectives on Digby Neck and the Islands, which Jim is writing with long-time collaborator Ben Robicheau.
Зміст
The three letters
Jessie and Esther
The party game
Betrayal
The party line
The nudist colony
The cat burglar
Incident at The Beaverbrook
A duck’s dilemma
The rights of spring
Pandemic pants
My internal monologue
The deer and the hunters
No second chances at first pitches
The Phantom of Fenway
The magic baseball card
Mary and Harry’s Obituaries
Election day
Amethyst summer
Finally, Finley
The perfect ending
Про автора
Jim Prime is the author of over 20 books, mostly on the subject of sports. He co-authored Ted Williams’ Hit List with the legendary Boston Red Sox hitter and How Hockey Explains Canada with Canadian hockey icon Paul Henderson. He has also collaborated with baseball eccentric Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee on two books. He has contributed articles to various magazines including Baseball Digest, Atlantic Insight, Atlantic Advocate, The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, and the Acadia Alumni Bulletin, where he briefly served as editor. He’s a five-time winner of the People’s Choice award at the Kings Shorts Festival of Ten Minute Plays in Annapolis Royal.Jim grew up in Freeport on Long Island, Nova Scotia and will always consider himself an islander. He lives in New Minas in the Annapolis Valley with his wife, Glenna.