Traveling Sitting Still: Short Stories

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iUniverse, 2007 - Fiction - 100 pages
"Robert's powers of observation, the way he focuses on apparently minor details that most of us overlook, make this collection of short stories a constant source of delight and surprise. These stories elevate everyday experiences to the level of high literary art. They do likewise with more profound human tragedies that cast an uncompromising light on the terrible things human beings knowingly and unknowingly do to one another."

-Dennis M. Clausen, author of Prairie Son

Rich with insight into the human condition, Traveling Sitting Still: short stories is a moving collection of short stories from author Robert Judge Woerheide. In an age of increasing anonymity, these hard-edged, uncompromising stories remind us that we are part of a greater whole. Whether it's an injured American GI forced to dig his own grave during World War II, a lonely germ-phobic stuck on a freeway entrance ramp in Los Angeles, or a man headed for divorce who finds solace in a Chiquita banana sticker, Woerheide explores the darker aspects of humanity and our ability to exist within them.
 

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Send in the Clowns
1
Kissing Margery Clean
3
Chiquita Lady
17
Noam Chomsky for President
25
Rabbit
29
Addressing Amy
36
Aggravated
41
Razing the Dead
45
Giving Up
56
Ausgraben
61
Dig Hadji Dig
66
Traveling Sitting Still
70
Author Notes
81
Back Cover
87
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