ALL THE ORDINARY PICTURES AND OTHER STORIES - Tecno-Libro

Have you ever seen what happens to a house plant left out in the wintery cold? it suffers what i can only imagine is an agonizing, belittling death. First the leaves slacken then whither while all the stems shrivel. Then the plant browns, sags completely, before turning utterly black like a plague corpse. That s what i felt like when i understood my father shot the photo of the girl on the cover of Gentlemen Club, shot all the photos of all the girls in those magazines sitting above my head all those years. i didn t even have to look at the rest to know that much. The years, angles, and numbers added up. My father was a pornographer. in this blending of light and dark genres , Scott Rhuin assembles a breakout collection of fiction that courses through the lives of subtle yet indelible characters meeting extraordinary circumstances, like teenager Sam Lewiston, who, in the title story All the Ordinary Pictures, mistakenly discovers her