Sunday, July 14, 2013

Kurt Vonnegut's "While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Cover of the short story collection While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut, JrWhere I have a post of a story, link on title goes there. My rating appears in brackets. Where I'm aware of an online copy, I include the download link too.

Table of contents (best first, unread last).

  1. [ss] "Hundred-Dollar Kisses" (A): Some people are so insensitive... 
  2. [ss] "Tango" (A): A teenager's coming of age via the wild Tango dance. 
  3. [ss] "Bomar" (A): When a practical joke in office boomeranged...
  4. [ss] "Girl Pool" (A): Life in a call center of a bygone era...
  5. [ss] "Jenny" (A): Sad love story of a romantic...
  6. [ss] "The Humbugs" (A); non-genre, humor: My husband is better than yours!
  7. [ss] "Out, Brief Candle" (A); download: A lonely widow finds romance in a pen pal.
  8. [ss] "The Epizootic" (B); download text & audio: Tragically securing family's future as jobs are threatened... 
  9. [ss] "$10,000 a Year, Easy" (B); non-genre: Your mother doesn't always know what's best for you...
  10. [ss] "Ruth" (B); non-genre: Two women coping with the loss of a loved one.
  11. [ss] "The Man Without No Kiddleys" (B); non-genre: How many kidneys are there among 2 men? 
  12. [ss] "Mr Z" (B): When a wannabe priest fell in love with a woman criminal... 
  13. [ss] "Money Talks" (B): A broke man's love for a rich girl. Is he after her money?
  14. [ss] "With His Hand on the Throttle" (B): A man's obsession with model trains is ruining his family life...
  15. [ss] "While Mortals Sleep" (B); christmas; non-genre: A newspaperman is making news out of a chore...
  16. [ss] "Guardian of the Person" (B); non-genre: A newly married young man goes to his home town to collect his inheritance & meet an Uncle.

Fact sheet.

First published: 2011.
Related: Stories of Kurt Vonnegut.

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