Welcome to Normal

When Craig accompanies his supervisor Martin to the Midwest on a business trip scouting big yellow trucks, he doesn't expect much--the roadside diners and strange currency seem straight out of an old black-and-white movie--but their visit to Martin's former classmate shows Craig a side of Normal he never anticipated. It's full of foam fingers and old movie theaters, not-so-good beer and vintage cars with fins, and most of all an attractive woman and her pet-project old-time theater. What Craig will find is that Normal is more intriguing than he'd imagined.

Approximately 9000 words/30 pages

"Short fiction is a notoriously difficult medium, but Earls has mastered it." -Sunday Age

"Earls at his clear-eyed best ... Unpredictable and engrossing, Welcome to Normal is anything but." -South Coast Register


Genre: General Fiction