Jewels in the Dust

Dust Jacket by Edward Miller.

In the pages of this latest collection of downright delicate, often enchanting and occasionally distressing stories from the pen of award-winning Peter Crowther you will encounter:

• two boys who discover an elaborate trap to capture fairies;
• a young musician haunted by the song 'Moonlight In Vermont';
• a small-time crook about to fall under the spell of London while, at the same time, rediscovering his wife;
• a family who happen across a store with a back door that takes you back to your favorite past;
• a Runyon-esque gambler with the strangest set of dice you ever saw;
• a couple jaded with their life together who are re-visited by their collective histories;
• an unusual visitor who rolls in one fall day under cover of a mighty thick fog just to touch base with someone he maybe once knew;
• a dying man who learns that most important of all lessons: his life has been more worthwhile than he realized; and
• a carnival come to visit the small turn-of-the-century Texas town of Gault, there to make a big impression on two young women on the cusp of…well, on the cusp of so many things.
• You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and, by golly, you’ll want to sleep with the light on. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Table of Contents:

• The Bachelor
• The Fairy Trap
• Old Delicious Burdens
• Dei Gratia
• Boxing Day
• The Musicians of Bremen, GA
• Circling the Drain
• Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew
• Breathing in Faces
• Jewels in the Dust
• Tomorrow Eyes
• The Doorway in Stephenson’s Store
• Thoughtful Breaths
• Story Notes

Limited: 750 signed and numbered hardcover copies