The War Is Over, Let's Go Shopping ˖ Stories by Paul A. Toth

The War is Over, Let's Go Shopping aims for the space between malls and war zones, the slippery slope that leads any of us to either place or both at once and, with a little hope and imagination, the road to our escape. Meet the obsessive who prides himself on coughing during a Horowitz performance....the father of a penguin who one day will fly...the woman who saves herself by eating mud...and the fellow who hovers like a helicopter in the hum of his favorite bar."A veritable showcase for the concise and subtle craft of a sort of 'watchwork' writer whose faux aloofness belies a raging zest for life and minutely detailed attention to the people and places around him, which borders on the obsessive, while investing profound empathy in every line he writes." ~ Dan Newland, reporter for the New York Times, other major American and international newspapers, as well as a fiction writer and author of his blog The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log.