Mark Doyon: Bonneville Stories

In Bonneville, good people lose limbs, fight lightning, and slip into sinkholes. They pitch over bicycles, tumble off ladders, and expire without warning. They spin the wheel and take their chances. It's all in a day's work.

Some blame God, others blame kismet, and still others rail against random happenstance.

All told, maybe there are no accidents.

With Bonneville Stories, Mark Doyon serves up ten playfully compelling tales of fate and the freedom to choose.

Bonneville Stories at Amazon.com

In "Sooner or Later," a woman is stymied by fate until she masters free will. In "A Shortness of Breath," a grown man escapes boyhood trauma. In "The Blue Flame," a boy creates an art form to transcend his bad luck.

Sample story: "Sooner or Later"

Doyon wrote Bonneville Stories on treks to Luray, Virginia, a Shenandoah Valley town famous for its sprawling caverns. Wedged between an agrarian past and an uncertain future, Luray melds 19th century homes and churches with proliferating retailers and fast-food restaurants.

Bonneville Stories is available from Amazon.com and Pocol Press.