Maureen A Griswold: 11 books

Military veteran, sister of a Vietnam War casualty, and a former print journalist, Maureen A. Griswold's 2003 satirical exposé, "A Veteran Applauds KB Toys," catalyzed a tsunami of responses/commentary regarding U.S. corporate media overall blackout of the G.W. Bush AWOL story from...

Kurt Robey's reputation as the best in the business hadn't come from lightweight challenges. His re-branding the public face of AFR after years as a top lobbyist for the gun industry, his cultivating legislators, his crafting and achieving agendas marked him clever, talented, unique. He would navigate AFR through this, politicians' kids or whatever.

A recent retiree's comfortable worldview is confronted by a war victim hosted by new neighbors in “The Neighbor’s Girl”— a tale from "The Grey Forest” short story collection.  

At first she thinks it’s just her. She’s wrong. She’s merely a part of a sudden, frightening, dangerous reality: no one can write anything new.

A famous imaginary boy perpetually entertains the public as the reality of his life and family is an altogether different story in “The Stand-ins” — a tale from "The Grey Forest" short story collection.

He’s handsome, debonair, magnetic, yet mysterious mental imagery results whenever a young Army nurse encounters him in “Visio Novus,” — a tale from "The Grey Forest" short stories collection.

She’s a social outcast and he’s someone only a very few have known for a very short time. For a few predestined moments this unlikely pair find each other in "Soulmates" — a tale from "The Grey Forest” short story collection.  

  A billionaire’s nonconformist son, a Buddhist monk, and a Tibetan sand mandala combine to reveal an ironic, paradoxical secret in “Nelson's Mandala" — a tale from "The Grey Forest" short story collection.  

A candle shop is an unexpected place of solace before and after a tragedy in “Illuminata” — a tale from “The Grey Forest” short story collection.  

When a foolish marketing letter from a major U.S. corporation is mailed to a long-dead businessman, an unexpected, richly satirical, and otherworldly response results in Dead Man's Tale -- a tale from The Grey Forest short story collection.   

Yes, traveler, you’ve discovered The Grey Forest. You’ve arrived at a crosspoint: a collection of short stories from a parallel terrain of shadow and light, of illusion and truth, of mystery and revelation. In The Grey Forest's landscape of twists, turns, and tales, things are not what...