Short Novels
Uncategorized July 20th. 2010, 11:01pmShort Novels
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 A Short Easter Novel Story Book Convict and the Gopher A Tale of Trust US $.99 |
 THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SHORT EROTIC NOVELS US $2.39
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 The Last Tycoon an unfinished novel with the Great Gatsby and short stories US $100.00
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 19 Western Novels Lot Max Brand Luke Short Johnstone McMurtry Kelton Parker Etc US $12.99
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 4 Paperback Novels by Kim Harrison Plus 1 Anthology with Short by Harrison US $12.99
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 Legends Short Novels by the Master of Modern Fantasy 1999 Paperback US $5.99
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 13 SHORT DETECTIVE NOVELS by Bill Pronzini 1988 1st 1st VERY NICE US $1.79
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 The Human Equation Provocative Short Novels of Tomorrow by Alfred Bester Leigh US $15.23
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 Three Short Novels Heart of Darkness Youth Typhoon by Joseph Conrad US $6.12
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 SIXTEEN SHORT NOVELS Selected by Wilfrid Sheed HBDJ US $4.50
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 20 WESTERN NOVELS BRAND CODY HOPSON LAMOUR MARTIN MILLARD SHORT US $10.00
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 13 Short Fantasy Novels Presented by Isaac Asimov Anderson Vance Zelazny Mo US $7.50
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 Famous Writers fiction Course Short Story and Novel Writing Volume IV by Unknown US $26.37
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 Four Short Novels by Herman Melville US $80.82
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 Pale Horse Pale Rider 3 Short Novels – Katherine Anne Porter 1947 US $8.00
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 Paperback New Short Novels 2 Ballantine 350377 US $8.00
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 Paperback Mary Louise Aswell New Short Novels Ballantine 350619 US $9.00
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 Paperback Joseph Conrad Three Short Novels Bantam 950789 US $8.00
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 Nobodys in Town Two Short Novels By Edna Ferber US $9.99
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 DORIS LESSING THE GRANDMOTHERS Four Short Novels US $2.00
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 5 Galaxy Short Novels Edited By H L Gold paperback US $2.00
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 Skeleton Crew by Stephen King 1986 Paperback short stories novel book US $.99
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 Nightmares Dreamscapes Paperback Stephen King short story horror novel book US $.99
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 2008 NOVEL SHORT STORY WRITERS MARKET 27th EDITION BRAND NEW US $2.50
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 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner An Eclipse Novel US $4.43
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 The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels by US $2.00
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 Breakfast at Tiffanys A Short Novel and Three Stories US $15.43
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 Breakfast at Tiffanys A Short Novel and Three Stories US $8.00
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 The Affair with bonus short story Second Son A Reacher Novel Jack Reacher US $2.75 |
 Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction Good Condition Book US $4.99 |
 Oxota A Short Russian Novel by Lyn Hejinian US $126.28
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 NEW Legends Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fant US $5.99
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 Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes 37 Short Stories and a Novel from the Str US $3.16
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 The Norton Introduction to the Short Novel by US $9.95
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 2005 Novel Short Story Writers Market Novel and Short Story Writers Market US $8.40
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 The Emperors Tomb with bonus short story The Balkan Escape A Novel Steve Be US $5.49 |
 Great German Short Novels and Stories by Heine Hauptmann Schnitzler 0394601084 US $4.97
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 Spence and Lila Harper Short Novel Series by Bobbie Ann Mason 0060159111 US $4.97
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 Three Famous Short Novels Spotted Horses Old Man the Bear by William US $83.79
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 Cather Willa MY ANTONIO SHORT STORIES 1994 HCDJ Novel More Very Fine US $9.99
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 The Grandmothers Four Short Novels Doris Lessing New Paperback US $5.98
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 2005 Novel Short Story Writers Market Novel and Sho US $13.05
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 A Short History of a Small Place A Novel T R Pearson Good Condition Book US $3.85 |
 The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels by Mike Ashley US $3.16
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 13 SHORT DETECTIVE NOVELS 1987 HBDJ CHANDLER MCBAIN ETC PHOTO IN DESCRIPTION US $13.96
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Why is the Title of my Novel Scarier Than Vampires?
Let's travel back in time to 1930, in central Texas. Fourteen years earlier, Jesse Washington*, a young man with mental retardation was on trial in Waco for murdering an elderly white woman; but a mob dragged him from the court, tied him to a rope, and tied the rope to the strongest branch of a tree near the courthouse. He was lynched after being repeatedly lowered by a rope into a fire built under the tree branch where he was hanging and having his fingers cut off when he tried to climb up the rope to get away from the flames. His genitals were also removed.
Once he was dead, his body was dragged behind a vehicle back to the small town where the elderly white woman he was accused of killing lived. It's possible he murdered the elderly woman. But he was denied the right to a fair trial and given cruel and unusual punishment without the benefit of a guilty sentence.
Such was life in Texas and other states, as well, at that time. A photo on a lynching postcard shows Washington's burned body hanging while the mob that lynched him poses for the camera. There are children in the photo along with the men who tortured and murdered him. This kind of cruelty was so common and so usual then, lynchings often became festive occasions with families bringing baskets of food to have a picnic and people selling hot dogs, barbecue, and watermelon to anyon who didn't bring food. There were also trophies collected, pieces of flesh and bone, even genitals. Photos were taken and sent to relatives "up north." A collection of lynching photos toured the country a few years ago without much fanfare. Why? Because no one wants to talk about this chapter of American history. We've moved past slavery (without really discussing its lingering effects), but even after a noose was hung on a tree at a high school in Jena, Louisiana, many white Americans didn't get why that upset African-Americans. In our culture, the noose is the Swatsika.
It represents the horrendous deaths of over 3,000 blacks and over 2,000 whites (mostly Jews and Italians) and Hispanics, not just in southern states, but in Illionis, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and California, as well as other northern and midwestern states.
In my novel, lynchings are an essential part of the plot and a fact of life for black people who live in the small rural community in Central Texas where my mother was born in 1930, and where I was born twenty-one years later.
It's the horror of a make believe lynching in the novel that causes a little black boy to go into a state of shock, so full of fear, his fear coalesces into an amorphous entity that inhabits the body of the vilest, cruellest, and most demented person in the community, a wealthy young white man who kills the boy's father and three brothers, aided by three peers.
The black family's mistake was being in the wrong place at the wrong time after going to see a silent horror movie about vampires on Halloween night. Elijah (Lijah), frightened at the thought of seeing a bloodsucking demon on the movie screen, was reassured by his father that there were no little "colored" boys in the movie and that the vampires "just be killing white folks." That phrase became the title of my book because it represents the opposite of the mindset, culture, and sentiment of that time. In fact, in 1930 Texas, they were killing black folks. So, I decided to create a situation that could only exist in a segregated, racist socieity in which, instead of black people having the disadvantage due to the color of their skin, white people would be in that position.
When Lijah's fear turns into the vampire, it takes with it the belief that it can only kill white people because that's what Lijah believed. So, in this time and place where even the clergy (all but one white Christian minister who warned his black minister friend whenever there was talk of a lynching) participated in lynchings and black people's lives could be taken due to a accusations that may or may not have been true, the tables are turned.
Instead of lynch mobs coming after the latest black to be targeted for stealing, killing, crossing the color line and lusting for a white female, demanding fair payment for goods or services (the most common reason for lynchings), or just being "too uppity," vampires hunt and kill every white person present in the community at the time, but are unable to kill black people.
This irony for me illuminates the lunacy of the wholesale murder and mutilation that occurred in Central Texas(and elsewhere) in 1930. Therefore, my little short novel is not only a tale of horror, but one of an irony that some people may not get. Not even black people.
I took 1000 promotional convention bags that cost a few hundred dollars with the name of my novel and my pen name imprinted on them to the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last summer, and the red bags with the words "They Just Be Killing White Folks (A Vampire Tale of Bloodlust, Terror and Horror) by VaJo PaJefChat" printed on them could be seen all over the place. However, not one person purchased a copy of the novel from my website, which was also printed on the bags. I've been advised to change the title of the novel, but that takes away the irony. My sister suggested that I flip flop the title so that it reads A Vampire Tale of Bloodlust, Terror, and Horror (They Just Be Killing White Folks); however, I'm not sure that would make much difference. I never meant for the title to strike fear, but to create curiosity, getting people to wonder why only white people are killed in a vampire novel. But I think there is a deep- held fear that goes back to the pre-Civil War era when there was a great fear of slave revolts and black slaves butchering their white slavemasters in their sleep. It's almost primal.
However, in my novel, it's not black people who do the killing. It's white people who've been converted into vampires. The role of blacks in the novel is to end the siege on their community through ancient Cherokee rituals and the power of their faith. I'll admit, the white characters in the novel, except for one, are not sympathetic. They behave as only people who stood around eating watermelon and fried chicken with their families while they watched someone getting tortured and killed, posing for photos could behave. How could anyone sympathize with people who would witness such an event, then possibly collect parts of the victims' bodies as trophies? There is no sympathy for the people who participate in lynchings or see them as entertainment in the novel.
The blacks in the novel are like the people that have lived in that community since slavery ended. Their leader is a black preacher, loosely based on my maternal great- grandfather. His nemesis is a conjure woman who's based on my paternal great-grandmother, but her character is neutral in this novel. However, at the end of the book, the behavior of blacks towards Hispanics is not that different in the 1970s as the whites' behavior towards blacks was in 1930. Hatred, oppression, racism, terror, and random acts of violence are all cyclical and defy reason or culture.
I plan to write more horror novels set in Mud Creek, the rural black community in "They Just Be Killing White Folks" in different time periods. That is if I can ever get anybody to ask the question posed by the title of this first one and actually buy it, read it, and try to understand its irony.
*As an author, I took poetic license when I described several actual lynchings, including Washington's, having them all take place in 1930, to add to the horror of the fictitious events set in that year in "They Just Be Killing White Folks."
About the Author
Winner of Media Achievement Award in 2008, while writing for The Sojourner's Truth Newspaper in Toledo, Ohio; reporter for The Toledo Journal, The Paper, and contributing writer for The Toledo City Paper and The Toledo Women's Magazine, BBW, DIMENSIONS; presently write for The Toledo Examiner on two topics: special edcuation and community events.
Kate Chopin 'The Storm' short story Audiobook
