PEOPLE AMONG US is a collection of sixteen short stories that explore what William Faulkner described as "the human heart in conflict with itself." Thus, the stories explore a wide range of emotional struggles--loneliness, jealousy, guilt, prejudice, heartbreak, ruminations--and other indescribable feelings which may be buried deep inside one's soul. But in the end, there is a light of hope that keeps burning. And somewhere inside each story is the struggle within the heart of some people among us. 

 

                                                                  ABOUT PEOPLE AMONG US

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It is the rare writer who can master the short story format, and Mike Brown is that writer. People Among Us is a collection of stories about ordinary people, people just like all of us, neither heroic nor evil, going about the business of living their lives. It is an amazing and satisfying look into what is, and what was, and what could very well be. Mike Brown reminds us that we are all just doing the best that we can, and that sometimes that is good enough, and sometimes it is not. Read this book; you will be glad that you did.

        Raymond L. Atkins

            Set List

           They All Rest in the Boneyard Now

           Lifetime Achievement Award, Georgia Writers

           Association

       

Over the course of these sixteen stories, Michael K. Brown presents situations that might feel deceptively quiet, even mundane on their surface but quickly peel back to reveal the raging fires beneath these calm exteriors. They take us on flights that are comfortingly familiar and yet startlingly frightening when the shocks of self-realization come.

        Linda Raven Woods

        Elmer and Leonard

        Two-time recipient of The Hackney Literary Award 

         Recipient of the Andrew Glaze Prize for Poetry

 

Michael Brown’s storytelling skills, honed over five novels and years of focus on craft, blossom beautifully in this striking collection of short stories. No literary pyrotechnics, just rock-solid prose and narrative exploration of people who seem familiar—a neighbor, a co-worker—and the issues that shape their lives, told in language that is comfortable and capably fitting.  

Clayton H. Ramsey

Feature Writer, Georgia Backroads

Officer Emeritus, Atlanta Writers Club​​

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