Edgar J. Goldenthal 173 Concordia Circle, Monroe Twp. NJ, 08831

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It is time to have another book published. It is called, “VERY STRANGE SHORT STORIES” You Have To Read. After all, I am 92 years old and if I am going to have things published why not now?
This is a book of short stories that is fascinating and provocative. You will never know when the truth changes to fiction; when Historical facts leave town and become a fascinating “tale” that wags one way or another. It is called, what “VERY STRANGE SHORT STORIES” You Have To Read These are very strange, else can I say? As a matter of fact, history is none too valid in my hands (if it ever was!). When I reveal myself as a prophet, of sorts, history had better take a back seat!
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Title of the book “VERY STRANGE SHORT STORIES” You Have To Read”.....by Edgar J. Goldenthal.
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This is not all the books tI have for your enjoyment .There is “Outrageous Essays and letters” and these Essays are really OUTRAGEOUS. There is a book of Poetry “Lots of Qustions ,Too Few Answers” , poetry with a vigor that is not the way poems are supposed to be. The last book is “Painfully Short Stories” and they are really a pain. These books are supposed to be posthumous but we’ll leave that for my children and grandchildren. It’s so exciting: they could sue me and it would be painless.... for me! Love ya, Ed
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“VERY STRANGE SHORT STORIES You Have to Read” That is my new book. Whereas in my previous book, OUTA MY MIND, I just lived an ordinary life and look what happened? You couldn’t get along without reading it! What was there about biographical writing that turned you on? It must have been exciting.
But this is a MUST. What makes this so particular? Several items are there that titillate the palate: Don’t ever forget what I can do with history! “Manfredonia” and “Cristoforo” are examples. How about ‘Cristoforo’? Did you ever read a Log that was so revealing? And don’t ever neglect what I can do with religion. I spent the best part of eight years reading and researching “The Live Sea Scrolls” until I came up with a murder mystery that has all the philosophy of a textbook and it’s all painless but not for the victims.
And if I must say it.....(I have to say it!)....there is something about the media that inspires me to create: I cannot guarantee what the creation is, but take the three tales I was inspired to write about from articles in the Sun-Sentinel in Boca Raton: can you beat those stories? They include “The Pipe”, “Demolition” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Can you ever get such an inspiration from a simple newspaper article? Newspaper articles have been reproduced that give a sense of reality to the whole shebang. I have a letter from the editor of the Sun-Sentinel telling me how proud he is of me that I got those inspirations. (I have to send him a copy of the book! At he end of the book there is a copy of his letter.)
And the stories that were inspired by the History Channel: can you beat that for science fiction? “The Great Flood” and “Re -Creation” and “Termination” are examples of imagination gone wild, (They might be the truth after all! You have to live long enough for them to come true.....that’s all!)
There are stories like “The Fortune Cookie Collector” that are sheer fiction. There is something about murder in Chinatown that turns me on. And the way “The Killer’ was treated by the media that turned me off! This was a story that took all the spare time that I had and I was not pleased with the decision that the courts decided. There is something about California that is unbelievable; like the O.J. Simpson case. So I came to an alternative decision that made more sense. One of my sons found this story so unbelievable that he resented the whole idea of it!
There are stories that seem like fiction but they are as real to me as they can be because they are true. Of course, I changed the names for obvious reasons in those “true” stories like “The Barber” and “This Is A Normal Life” .
There is out-and-out fiction in this book because I have a great imagination, like “An Interesting Neighbor” (it says after this story “There is not a true word in this story!” but there must have been an exciting cause for this story to have been written in the first place.
There is the soul of fiction in ”The Caretaker” sounds like fiction and “The Deathwish” and “A Cold Case” and “Reading My Hard Drive” and “Oh You Sleep” and “Vick”. There is a form of story which is the god’s honest truth but I left the names in there because the names are fiction, in the first place. That story is “At The Crossroads”. The “Crossroads” is fictitious as an eatery but the rest is true. So “The Barber” and “Hans” are real but I was at a “crossroads” there. The barber made his names up, but why get sued for nothing? Hans is a true story but it is only as true as my relative’s memory.
This is a different book than the previous book of short stories. In the tales in OUTA MY MIND the stories all had a “punch-line” which lent an element of surprise to the book. If there is a punch-line in this book it is telegraphed long in advance.
I think, as the author, that this is a successful book in terms of reading: There is more out-and-out fiction in here than in “OUTA MY MIND”. But you have to watch it here: I mix facts and fiction to lend authenticity in them. Some of the historical tales are really like authentic History!
Dr.Edgar J. Goldenthal, 173 Concordia Circle, Monroe Township, NJ, 08831
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