The Prince Of The World: Stories

In these six stories, Chris Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poetic grace. i> ntelligent People Speaking Reasonably follows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest. i> pace is Kindness witnesses the unexpected death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan from the perspective of a local reporter and a photographer rushing to the crash-site in 2000. i> arkstar takes place in Dublin and follows a young outcast named Sailor through grimy, pre Apocalyptic streets as he tries to find the soulmate he hasn’t seen since childhood. i> on of Man tells the story of the Manson family from the perspective of one of its members. i> ow to Make Millions in the Oil Market contemplates the absurdity of war from the point of view of a Blackwater contractor first in the chaos of Iraq and later in the relative peace of the US. The epictitle story Prince of the World follows a mixed-race orphan named Labelle as he wanders north along the Mississippi, ultimately caught in the infamous Starved