Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales Of The Weirdly Departed - Softcover

Ceilan, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599219107 ISBN 13: 9781599219103

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2010

Synopsis

Nothing makes you want to embrace the quiet loveliness of life's ordinary moments more than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death. Consider the fates of these unwitting headline-makers:

• Betty Stobbs, an elderly shepherdess who rode her motorbike up the hill to feed her charges, was run off the road and into a ravine by her own stampeding herd of hungry sheep.
• Cornell University senior Terrence Quinn got drunk one night and climbed into the chimney of the Sigma Alpha Mu frat house. He was discovered when his shoes and pants dropped into the fireplace after someone opened the flue.  He had been dead for at least three days.
• Boro Mandic not only survived a horrific car crash, but walked away without a scratch. Doctors declared it a miracle. On the walk home from the hospital, he was run over by a train.

In the tradition of Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed, Ceilán's latest collection of true stories offers another shamelessly irreverent romp through the unenviable final adventures of some of the world's unluckiest stiffs.

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From the Back Cover

Too weird to be true? Not at all.
Collecting stories about weird deaths is a decidedly sick hobby. “Yet, strangely life-affirming,” says Cynthia Ceilán, the author of Unlucky Stiffs. “Nothing makes you want to embrace the quiet loveliness of life’s ordinary moments more than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death.”
Consider the fates of these unwitting headline-makers: Randle Cunningham, who stopped at a Taco Bell drive-thru window with a handgun tucked into his pants. When he leaned over to grab the loose change to pay for his food, the gun discharged into his groin, killing him instantly. Jose Ricart, who walked up and down a busy street carrying a sign that read, the end of the world is nigh. And so it was, at least for him. A truck ran over and killed him.
Ceilán’s latest collection of true stories offers another shamelessly irreverent romp through the unenviable final adventures of some of the world’s unluckiest stiffs.

About the Author

Cynthia Ceilán is the author of Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed and Weirdly Beloved: Tales of Strange Bedfellows, Odd Couplings, and Love Gone Bad (both published by The Lyons Press). Visit her Web site at WeirdlyHuman.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1599219107
• ISBN 13: 9781599219103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256