Paul Hawkins: 27 books

Book cover of A Cure for All Known Diseases
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Short literary fiction: Set in the 1933 Philippines: a woman yearns for something more from life while her doctor husband longs to make the world a safer, tidier place.
Book cover of Angels and Electrons: A Sub-Suburb Tale
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015

Set in the sub-suburbs, where trailer park and white-flight suburb rub elbows, a young man tries to escape the shadow of his brilliant but despairing father, only to find himself subjected to the same temptations to find the answers to life in a device designed to talk to angels or the dead. Faustian,...
Book cover of Auto-De-Fe
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011

Two young friends are united by a crappy old car, dead-end summer jobs, and the endless desire to escape from tedium into the big wide world. One breaks free and gets the girl; the other gets an empty garage and a valuable lesson. Short story: humor, coming of age, around 8200 words.
Book cover of Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Now with four bonus stories! Is man by nature evil, or stupid, or both? These short-short stories (plus seven bonus stories) let you decide. Great short reading for travel, leisure, or any occasion where you need to conscipuously ignore the person next to you. Short-short stories, humor.
Book cover of High Crimes and Mr. Wieners
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012

When a local kid's TV show personality and his seven trained dachshunds get kicked to the curb in favor of generic PBS programming, the discovery of a hotdog-man suit in a fast food dumpster leads to a new career as a costumed crime fighter (hey, dogs have to eat). And will the lady in his life...
Book cover of Zoomobile 3000
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012

A chimp won in a hand of poker leads to the fulfillment of a man's life-long dream and then unlocks a destiny greater than he could have ever imagined. Humor, around 2000 words.
Book cover of Punchafish
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012

In the tradition of "Moby Dick," "The Old Man and the Sea" and the great Ali-Foreman bout of 1974 comes a man vs fish story for the 21st century. It's survival of the fittest for George Miller, a down-and-out working stiff who has to beat the odds (and a really big fish) to reclaim his dignity. Short story, humor, around 2000 words.
Book cover of Nihilism Sucks: Of Human Hope and Larry’s Hail Mary Pass in the Craigslist Personals
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012

Nine comic short-shorts deleted at the last moment from "Leaves of Grass" by an alternate timeline Walt Whitman. What was he thinking?!? His loss is your gain. For a limited time only this rare collection can be yours for free! Take that, Nietzsche, you worn-out grumpus. Life is funny. Includes...
Book cover of Angels and Electrons: A Sub-Suburb Tale
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012

Set in the sub-suburbs, where trailer park and white-flight suburb rub elbows, this story rollicks across decades, from the 1980's to the present. An addled man tries to escape the shadow of his genius but despairing father only to find himself subjected to the same grandiose temptations to find...
Book cover of Prometheus Fit To Be Tied
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

Recounting 1939, the birth of a superpower, the twilight of a mostly rural America, and the misbegotten adventures of the last man in the world to know everything except what to do with himself. Comedy, romance, and drama unfold when a dissipated millionaire returns from Europe to his childhood home...
Book cover of SNAPPED! Four (Plus) Comic Tales of the “Little Guy” vs. The System
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012

Even felt pushed too far? These guys did. Four (plus) comic shorts chronicle the misadventures of average joes who got pushed too far by the system. Mayhem, heroism, and comic vengefulness ensue. Includes: “Middleburg - A Zeppelin-Friendly Community”; “Punchasfish”; “Zoomobile 3000”; and...
Book cover of Fly Whither, Finch
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

A middle aged man must come to grips with his loneliness as a widower while trying to reestablish a relationship with his estranged son. This in the context of his old neighborhood being lost to urban renewal.
Book cover of Other, Please Specify: Notes from an Off-white American
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

With tact, enthusiasm and humor, Paul Hawkins invites you into his intimate revolution—a romance, an unexpected pregnancy, the beginning of a family—a multiracial family. We follow the storyteller’s easy tone and clear voice as he wades through the cultural quagmire of nth generation white America to expand his identity and embrace his new roles of partner, father and other.
Book cover of The Vampirening of Taffney St. Cloud
by Paul Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

A broody suburban girl copes with her recent vampirening. Or is it vampirification? Having bit of fun at the expense of a popular genre.
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