Warming Fires: Stories for All Seasons (2nd Edition)

"We need stories like these to help us make sense out of our lives. Kunkel's characters are familiar to most Midwesterners. They're laconic, hardworking, practical, quick to worry, slow to complain. . . . These are stories to warm the heart and spirit." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With an entertaining cast of Midwestern characters - farmers, newlyweds, hunters, ministers, teens - this luminescent collection of 17 short stories combines humor, grace, and tender insights. There are rewards to win (and prices to pay), whether swimming in musky-infested waters in the nude . . . or facing the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 . . . or chasing an aging rhino down a Wisconsin back road. Author Jeff Kunkel is an accomplished storyteller, writer, artist, and United Methodist minister. Born and raised in Wisconsin, he now lives in Oakland, California.