Life-ARC Teaching Tales

The stories tales and memories of Life-Arc Teaching Tales deal with the instructiveness of teaching as well as the hammered ironic learning of getting through any lifetime. First come the inverted parables: a live deer is embalmed in white paint by kids who cant believe hes real; a surfer becomes a ghost rider in the curl of a wave; a widows son is underwhelmed by success when he wears the vest she gave him inside out. The darkly comical stories that follow culminate in Zeugners account of his own memory-riddled heart attack. The collection is a virtuoso performance to be savored over multiple readings. --Chandler Thompson Translator of novels by Hector Aguilar Camin John Zeugner Emeritus Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) lectured in Japan for over five years--experiences used in his prize-winning collection of short stories Under Hiroshima (2014) and his novel Soldier for Christ (2013). He advised undergraduate social/technological projects at WPIs overseas centers in London Bangkok Hong Kong San Juan Copenhagen and particularly Venice which figures in his compilation of three short novels Food for Jackals (2014).