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Review of Locking Arms with Giants by Bob Faszczewski

By Joan Drescher Cooper, author of Birds Like Me, Return to Lilac Hill and others

It is difficult to stretch beyond well-loved parameters. In his beautifully titled collection of short stories, Bob Faszczewski leans beyond his former writing life as a news reporter. Locking Arms with Giants offers eleven stories told in speculative what-if with famous or infamous persons influencing the resolution for each case. Like the true crime and misdemeanors he spent his professional life covering, Faszczewski fills the narration with history or near-history and then spins the conclusion in a deus ex machina twist as the historical figures step in and help bring the balance of justice over evil back in check. His style in most of the collection is the newsy but gritty present tense retelling of events much like noir detective fiction. Historical figures who intervene in the tales range from Harriet Tubman to Rachel Carson. Many of the tales spin a rich historical trip through the true political dramas and intrigues from Maryland's Eastern Shore, across the Eastern Seaboard and beyond.

ABOUT THE BOOK
In Bob Faszczewski's second published collection of short stories, most of the stories in this volume explore historical figures or their descendants crossing the timeline or appearing through the dreamscape to solve personal and environmental problems in the past, present or future. Other stories, about travel back and forth across the timeline and the dreamscape, are included for pure entertainment value.