Night Hawks - Gray, Michael Loyd
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Four solitary souls. One small town diner. A chain of events that changes everything. Hank Spencer knows what goes on in his diner. He knows which days are best for business and whether the Blue Plate special is selling, and he makes note of the customers who come to drink and make small talk with his servers. Lois is a hardworking waitress pushing fifty who hasn't forgotten her big city dreams. When opportunity presents itself, she boards the train for Chicago, despite the risks and her boss's attempts to warn her. Working all the double shifts in the world won't take care of Clara's problem.…mehr

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Four solitary souls. One small town diner. A chain of events that changes everything. Hank Spencer knows what goes on in his diner. He knows which days are best for business and whether the Blue Plate special is selling, and he makes note of the customers who come to drink and make small talk with his servers. Lois is a hardworking waitress pushing fifty who hasn't forgotten her big city dreams. When opportunity presents itself, she boards the train for Chicago, despite the risks and her boss's attempts to warn her. Working all the double shifts in the world won't take care of Clara's problem. She's young, single, and knocked up. She feels trapped-at the diner, living with her god-fearing parents, and in the gossipy town full of watchful eyes. Tyler is adjusting to civilian life after a stint in the army. At Hank's Diner, he finds camaraderie and comfort, and sometimes, he can drown out visions of war over a plate of potatoes and meatloaf, and several, ice-cold beers. These lonely souls converge under the fluorescent glow of the eatery, late at night and during long days, as the train speeds through, blaring its horn and signaling an alternate path. NIGHT HAWKS is a tender novella with a touch of noir about finding family in unlikely places, living through losses, and the connections that keep us showing up for another shift. "Michael Loyd Gray's prose unspools with the unmistakable cadence of a storyteller."-Stuart Dybek
Autorenporträt
Michael Loyd Gray's stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Alligator Juniper, The Fiction Week Literary Review, Bone Parade, I-70 Review, Westchester Review, and Literary Heist. He is also the author of six novels. Well Deserved won the Sol Books Prose Series Prize (2008) and King Biscuit, his first YA novel, was released in 2012. Both are set in Gray's fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, which is also the setting for The Last Stop. His novel The Armageddon Two-Step (2019), won a Book Excellence Award.Gray earned a MFA in English from Western Michigan University, where he was a Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society scholar and a fiction editor for Third Coast. He served as a staff writer for newspapers in Arizona and Illinois, and currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he collects electric guitars (up to a dozen now) and listens intently to blues and vintage rock. Gray teaches creative writing and literature for several colleges when not grappling with a new guitar lick. He has two lazy cats, Suzie Lucifer and Yoda Lucifer.