{"product_id":"2940148643258","title":"Devils Hole Rd And Other Short Stories","description":"DEVILS HOLE RD\u003cbr\u003ea\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF SHORT STORIES BY RON TALLOAK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSYNOPSIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEVILS HOLE RD\u003cbr\u003e(10,018 words\u003cbr\u003eDonald Eversole’s wife Nan’s systemic Scleroderma, which was attacking her internal organs, required  more of his caretaker time than his accounting practice would allow forcing him to sell it.  Wanting something to challenge his mind without the time restraints he became a substitute high school teacher.  He obtained a contract to sub at a country high school surrounded by farms from which most of the students came.  In the story, Devils Hole Rd, the reader is taken into the high school classrooms at Westlake High in southern Indiana as Donald is transformed nurturing a  fantasy about a sixteen year old  junior, Diana Sabatini.  A fantasy that takes on a life of its own.    Donald’s transformation comes to fulfilment on DEVILS HOLE RD  in Diana’s step father Tony Sabatini’s auto restoration garage.  A fulfilment which leads him to Judge Lester Petermen’s court room on a warm April afternoon.\u003cbr\u003eCHANCE MEETING\u003cbr\u003e(1,897 words)\u003cbr\u003eTom O’Brien and Kathleen Williams, two former acquaintance who hadn’t seen each other for years, who by chance happened to be in Chicago’s O’Hare terminal where Kathleen recognizes Tom and the acquaintance is renewed.. Tom’s first impression of Kathleen was she wore her clothes well.  Tom asked Kathleen if he could buy her a drink which she countered with not now but lets have that drink and a supper tomorrow at the lounge in my hotel.  A time was set and an exchange of hotel information made.  They were to meet in the lounge.  Tom was on time but Kathleen failed to arrive.  When Tom went to Kathleen’s room to check on her he found the door to be open.  Upon entering  his comfortable life, as he had known it, came to an end. \u003cbr\u003eTHE JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e(4727 words)\u003cbr\u003eThe wise men were to make a journey of several days across the mantel starting at the end by the mantel clock. Their journey would take them past the two red candles and a  Christmas wreath that hung on the wall at the center of the mantel and would come to an end at the manger on the other end of the mantel on Epiphany Sunday  Their journey was continually being interrupted by  Grandfather Knake who didn’t like his granddaughter Amy’s wedding plans.  He was trying to tell her in any he could but it took some doing seeing he was buried on the preceding September 15th..\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ronald Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122292441328,"sku":"2940148643258","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148643258_p0.jpg?v=1763705772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148643258","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}