Something Special

Big news: Russell Bittner’s fiction collection, Stories in the Key of C. Minor. published by Faraway, is available for purchase for just $10.96. An ebook version is also available for $5.00. By Brooklyn author Russell Bittner, Stories features five short works, plus the novella Something Special. Incorporating the themes of love, loneliness and loss, Stories in the Key of C. Minor. is at times heartbreaking, at times funny, and always poignant and original.

Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original “Ground Zero.” With this first book of five short stories and one novella, Russell Bittner believes that worlds can be discovered and described in a dewdrop, in a teardrop, in a leaky faucet—and that all that’s required is a good magnifying glass, keen powers of observation, and a feel for how language might be made to form a picture in the reader’s mind. NYC—fugheddaboud Brooklyn—is home to scoundrels and angels, derelicts and daredevils, high flyers, low flyers and every kind of flyer for every kind of service one human being is able to coerce, cheat, beggar or beat out of another. Russell captures that here in the key of C Minor—the key of melancholy.

The novella Something Special, which Faraway has been serializing in chapter-long installments throughout August is also now available as a single, complete file, for your reading convenience. Preview Russell Bittner’s talent in Something Special, then click here to purchase the book Stories in the Key of C. Minor.

Something Special is a novella-length story by author Russell Bittner that is featured in the new collection, Stories in the Key of C. Minor. It is about Bruce, a middle-aged agent for models whose plans to spend a romantic weekend in the wilds of Yosemite with his gorgeous protege Angie go horribly awry. Written with an impressive eye for detail and an awesome command of language, Something Special is an intriguing and absorbing tale by an emerging author who is sure to leave his mark.

Friday, August 7: Introducing Russell Bittner

Saturday, August 8: Something Special - Chapter ONE

Sunday, August 9: Something Special - Chapter TWO

Tuesday, August 11: An Interview with Russell Bittner, Part 1

Thursday, August 13: Something Special - Chapter THREE

Friday, August 14: An Interview with Russell Bittner, Part 2

Saturday, August 15: Something Special, Chapter FOUR

Monday, August 17: Something Special, Chapter FIVE

Wednesday, August 19: Something Special, Chapter SIX

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