Poor Advice by Lou Gaglia

Releases March 2014

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Lou Gaglia lives and teaches in upstate New York after twenty years of the same in New York City. He’s a long time T’ai Chi Ch’uan practitioner, having studied with Sophia Delza. His short stories have appeared in Blueline, Prick of the Spindle, FRiGG, Stymie, Foliate Oak, JMWW, and others.

About the Collection:
From the absurd “Orca (A Madcap Thriller),” in which a vindictive whale goes after Richard Harris, Ann Margaret, and Boris Karloff, to “Elegy for Strangers,” a stream of consciousness story about a man's memories of the death of a young girl, Poor Advice, Lou Gaglia's debut collection, encompasses the versatility of his work. An awful poet, dumped by his girlfriend, escapes to Italy. A petulant editor blows off works submitted by Steinbeck and Tolstoy and Joyce. A 6-year-old and his father kill more than two hundred flies at a horse farm while the father wonders about life and death. From the odd to the innocent, even the author's serious pieces contain sparks of humor. A bank teller reminds a young man of an abused girl he ignored when he was eleven. During a traffic jam, a quiet father challenges his even quieter son to talk for once, resulting in two humorous, parallel stories. Poor Advice as a collection shows Gaglia’s imagination, humor, and range. Read more from the author in such journals as Prick of the Spindle, FriGG, Rose & Thorn Journal, Stirring, Bartleby Snopes, Breakwater Review, Spilling Ink Review, and many others.