Wynn Parks: 10 books

Songs from Dinosaki's Jukebox isn't a four thousand word wonder, but a full-length book replete with sometimes lurid, not necessarily P.C. tales of modern day travelers and their sometimes dark, sometimes hilarious, personal encounters with the ancient spirits and mythological creatures still haunting...

Reading Rambulations of Andreas the Bum has been described by it's hard-copy readers as taking a trip somewhere between Kerouac and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a "journey tale", set in the Greek Aegean islands written as a journal by Andy Alytis. Andy is a third generation...

Most people think they would know a dragon if they saw one. That's what expatriate American, Andy Alytis thought, before his need for a resident's visa compelled him to set out for the Greek island of Hypata. Hypata, he learns, is an obscure island in the Aegean, with a dark history of corsair kingdoms,...

Manoulis had been born a child of Epiphany. To the village's old women, his birth season---the season of long nights, when the old and New Year meet---placed a part of Manoulis in the company of satyrs and ghosts and other creatures of the in-between. Yet Manoulis is a kissing fool, and his obsession may reprieve his sister from the convent! An Austin Chronicle Short Story Prize Winner

Andy Alytis is an American ex-patriot living in Athens. He notes, ruefully, that all the foreign, study-abroad girlfriends he has hooked up with in Athens, have started out seeming like the girl next door, but gradually reveal themselves to be wing-nuts, and drama-queens, full of hidden phobias and...

Though regarded in the village as something of a roue, Uncle Antonis is the closest thing Akis has to a father. Antonis and his cafenion cronies provide the young island boy a window onto manly ways of the world. As a child, Akis takes Uncle Antonis' reputation as a "ladies' man" on face...

When I first came across the story in a J.Frank Dobey book The Mustangers, I was working on an historical romance set in the era of the great American buffalo hunt; very much into folk dialects and the lore of the American West. Frank Dobey records the story of a black mustang-hunter who employed...

I am haunted by legends of people who follow a course, on principle, that means their certain death--- the defenders of the Alamo, or the Three Hundred Spartans. What words echoed through their minds as they set out to resist their inevitable doom? Were there words at all, or only a quivering pool...

Curious Critters (Vol. I) contains three comic-book adventures of Boggs Pumpelly and Bud Ricks in script form; two country boys living amid the hills and hollows of north Alabama. If there's a strange critter --- animal or human --- anywhere in the hills, Boggs' and Bud's path seem destined to cross...

Curious Critters Vol. II- Continues the audacious, comic adventures of Boggs Pumpelly and Bud Ricks, in script form; tales of two country boys living amid the hills and hollows of north Alabama. If there's a strange critter--- animal or human--- anywhere in the hills, Boggs' and Bud's path seem destined...