Rick Sterry

The Cloudbuster and Other Stories Rick Sterry

... a traveler picks up a hitchhiker and on impulse pretends to be someone he is not ... a couple makes up after sleeping separately for a hundred and twenty-one days following a fight about a missed TV show ... a husband is ready to divorce his wife until his father-in-law takes him bowling and gives him some advice ... a hired man on a farm is in love with the daughter but is courted by the mother ... an older brother schools a younger in the arts of seduction ... a self-absorbed teen misses an opportunity to appreciate his grandfather ... a drifter builds a rainmaking machine and promises to end a drought. These funny, sometimes touching stories reveal ordinary people jolted out of their comfort zones by unexpected circumstances. Here is the best of Rick Sterry's lifetime of fiction and non-fiction story writing. "Troubadour" was selected as one of the best short stories published in an American magazine by The Columbia School of Journalism and the American Association of Magazine Editors.