{"id":2231,"date":"2019-10-28T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2019-10-28T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:28:31","slug":"distant-rumors-16-stories-of-life-and-death-by-william-gensburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Distant Rumors: 16 Stories of Life and Death by William Gensburger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DISTANT<\/p>\n

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An elegant, memorable collection\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Set in present day, distant future, and alternate reality, this short story collection by Gensburger focuses on the familiar themes of life and death. Beginning with commonplace themes, Gensburger skillfully sprinkles oddities, leading to a higher structure of splendid strangeness in each story. In \u201cJust A Little Death,\u201d the protagonist is forced to revisit the haunting memory of his own past after a tragedy befalls a student. In \u201cOn Deck,\u201d a man\u2019s past heartbreaks refrain him from getting in a new relationship. \u201cThe First and Final Thing\u201d is a heartening tale of finding love in unexpected circumstances while \u201cA Limited Point of View\u201d chronicles the slow crumbling of a hard-working executive\u2019s morality as he moves toward the top level at his work. With his ability to transform the commonplace into the extraordinary, Gensburger delivers a sophisticated collection that will stay with the reader for long.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Distant Rumors: 16 Stories of Life and Death <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

by William Gensburger<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Alt Publish<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Buy now<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Pub date June 21, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

ISBN 978-0997722796<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Price $12.99 (USD)<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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  An elegant, memorable collection\u2026 Set in present day, distant future, and alternate reality, this short story collection by Gensburger focuses on the familiar themes of life and death. Beginning with commonplace themes, Gensburger skillfully sprinkles oddities, leading to a higher structure of splendid strangeness in each story. In \u201cJust A Little Death,\u201d the protagonist is forced to revisit the haunting memory of his own past after a tragedy befalls a student. In \u201cOn Deck,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: Distant Rumors: 16 Stories of Life and Death by William Gensburger #bookreview #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #writers #williamgensburger #distantrumors","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739,955],"tags":[3328,178,4405817,1008073,856121,309,546],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-reviews","category-stories","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-fiction-book-review","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-zZ","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}