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  CURTIS VANDONKELAAR. WRITER.

Bad Man Love Stories

New from Etchings Press at the University of Indianapolis!

Available here on Amazon and at the link below.


From the publisher:

Curtis VanDonkelaar's book of prose, Bad Man Love Stories, is a page-turner collection of stories that will keep you hooked. In these stories, VanDonkelaar portrays themes such as guilt, lust, regret, and envy. Each story is about an interesting man and an issue he is struggling with from raising kids, divorces, or accepting a new change in his life. This hilarious, and sometimes heart-breaking collection will take you on a roller coaster of emotions that will keep you reading to the very end.

Buy it here!
...from the collection:

“Bad Man Love Stories”


     I. Surely This Is how a good love is best made broke:
     “You don’t do some stupid thing I want,” he says, “and I want to rain down on the world like God in His baddest pickup. He comes down from the mountains and He brings His mouth.”
     “Oh?” she asks ...


"Another Acceptance"

     Sometimes I can’t remember if I’m supposed to like to dance. This is not to say that I don’t know, or that I can’t know, or couldn’t say, but only that I can’t be sure when I did and when I didn’t, and really, what are you asking anyways? ...

"...this piece [is] a warning, a reminder that we’re closest to those we can’t save, whom we eventually, finally, have to let go, even when we’re not programmed to."
     
Managing Editor Tim Johnson, Passages North
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