Bumping and Other Stories

About the Book

From a Southeast Asian jungle where the greatest safety is as close to the danger as you can get, to a suburban backyard where a neighbor’s cat moderates a wounded man’s personal crisis to communicate, Bumping and Other Stories is all over the map. Jack Savage has assembled twelve very different tales including a Ukrainian prisoner’s account of the improbable events in an abandoned slaughterhouse leading to his twenty-fi ve year incarceration, a powerful off-stage player reminded that some turns of our past can never be reconciled with our present, and an estranged anniversary couple who forced to once again choose each other.

Bumping and Other Stories is an eclectic mix of stories about a past lost and found, a present rediscovered, a recurring dream and a living nightmare with justice to meat out, of a childlike wonderment, a life of learning lost, and two souls sharing one affl iction. The stories are hopeful and often ironic but all with a certain subjectivity that allows the reader a vote in the referendum of life’s little trials. As Bernard in Savage’s "Bumping" puts it: “...the cavalcade of what-if´s that are still mine to ponder”.

About the Author

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and artist who now writes and creates his art full time. He is the author of six books: three novels, two short story collections and The High Sky of Winter’s Shadows, an autobiographical account told in essays amassed over fifty years. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mankato and received his Master’s Degree from California State University, Los Angeles where he taught film studies for six years. Twenty-eight of Jack’s short stories have been published in literary magazines around the world such as the Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Nazar LOOK, The View From Here and Postcards, Poems and Prose. Jack is also a talented artist whose work has appeared in more than twenty periodicals and whose acting credits include over fifty stage productions and two pretty bad films. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.