James G. Bruen Jr.
ASIN: B005JPEH5K
Publisher: Choptank Publications
Pages: 25
These five brief interlocking stories of people who accomplish the proverbially impossible were published originally in the American Chesterton Society’s Gilbert Magazine. Each story stands alone, but together they also constitute a single narrative, Impossible Possibilities. Whimsical yet serious, Impossible Possibilities is a story of family, rootedness, and struggle against big business and government.“Some things are impossible, such as a pig flying, although, if one searches the literature one might stumble upon tales of the League of the Long Bow, whose members performed even impossible tasks. Other things, while possible of performance by some persons, are, strictly speaking, impossible for others. A man cannot give birth, no matter how hard he tries. This short tale concerns the doing of one thing the particular individual could not do.” – The opening paragraph of The Song, the ...