Jonah Gibson

Buses & Bears, Bullets & Stones Jonah Gibson

Publisher Marketing: Buses & Bears, Bullets & Stones is a collection of 5 short stories-a mixed bag of off-beat fiction aimed directly at the adult funny bone. These stories are alternately funny, poignant, quirky, magical, and occasionally a little scary. In Mourning Jimmy Crooks, inveterate stoner, Sonny Crooks, can't seem to escape his dad's legacy of mediocrity-not even in a million dollar motor home. It's curious how some people, when they come into the possession of something nice and luxurious, feel compelled to show it to everyone they know...whether or not they are interested. In The Trouble with Bears, John Tinley longs for a sanguine escape from the office show and tell. In Joy Rides, two young Vietnam vets seem to be at the mercy of a half-crazed uncle. They sort out their memories and their differences in a trailer park on Galveston Bay. Bullets fly. Whiskey is murdered. Fashionable young housewife, Merle Stinson, needs to get her husband to stop cheating on her. Her masseuse, an oddly mystical Irish girl, wants to help. In Runes for the Heart, we learn that you have to be careful what you wish for. And finally, in the flash fiction piece, Face Time, a young couple finds that when you set out to save the world, sometimes it's already too late. Contributor Bio:  Gibson, Jonah Jonah Gibson is a retired CPA and management accountant who lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida with his wife and as many greyhounds as they are able to squeeze into the house. He has been writing since he was a child, but only turned to it seriously when he left off working for a living in 2008, principally because it salves his fascination with criminal activity without getting him into any trouble. When he is not writing, he is tinkering at art and probably thinking about fishing although he never actually does the latter as he hates to get his tackle wet. Jonah prefers the sacred to the profane, but profanity to speech that has been sanitized of impact. He prefers art to politics and politics to war, quiet to music and music to noise. He prefers driving to flying, but, these days, who doesn't. He'd rather have red wine than white, scotch than bourbon, and martinis than almost anything else. He likes his candy with nuts. Jonah believes fiction is often truer than reality, and art is more reasonable than philosophy. He thinks science confirms faith in ways only a poet would understand. He believes that, at a minimum, one should leave the world in a better state than one found it, and that while it's okay to fail at this, it's not okay not to try.