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God Hires Gardeners: Modern Works of Flash Fiction Based on Bible Stories
by William H. McCann, Jr.
Paper
$17.99
979-8-88838-387-2
2023
God Hires Gardeners: Modern Works of Flash Fiction Based on Bible Stories contains twenty-one stories from the old and new testaments of the Bible that have been retold in new ways. In the Garden of Eden Adam goes fishing in a Jon boat and Eve uses a tablet computer. The Prodigal son performs at Carnegie Hall. Daniel plays for the Detroit Lions. A boy of five saves the Israelites from Pharaoh’s army. Jesus visits Nebo, Kentucky, and Samaria, Indiana. Jesus answers questions in a mall and asks hard questions of a televangelist. These are not the stories you learned in Sunday School. And yet ….
William H. McCann, Jr. is a published writer of flash fiction, poetry and plays. A member of the Dramatist Guild his plays have been produced on stage and radio and been recognized for excellence by both the Kentucky Theatre Association and the journal Aurora. He is an MFA student at Eastern Kentucky University, and a member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio. However, Mr. McCann is best known for his Arts’ Watch column which regularly appears in the Winchester Sun and occasionally other Kentucky newspapers including the Jessamine Journal and the Harlan Enterprise. He is host of Kentucky Theatre Production, an occasional series, for WEKU (88.9 FM) which also includes “Theatre of the Mind” 10-minute radio dramas and comedies. He is a deacon at First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Winchester where he lives with his wife Jeanine, two cats, and Halligan the Wonder Dog. He may be reached at william.mccann@mymail.eku.edu
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