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Von Pittman's short story collection is a lesson in the shocking, heart-warming, and humorous finer points of life--that come to life as soon as you open the pages. The results of his tireless attention to detail and craft await you: lean, finely-honed stories with extraordinary characters, ones you will never forget. These stories will make you laugh and cry, and learn about your colleagues and acquaintances. Then you'll want to start all over again.

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Von Pittman creates characters at odds with their lives, times, and circumstances--war, academia, sports--and portrays their eccentricities and faults with humor and compassion. Surprising, sometimes funny, richly insightful, these pieces have a sustaining quality. Reading Breakfast at Earl's feels like a long talk with a good friend. --Bridget Bufford, author, Cemetery Bird; Editor, Eternal as a Weed Von Pittman's unique voice makes even a dusty museum in Prague come alive. His skewed imagination takes you into situations that ring true even if (perhaps) they aren't real. His wry outlook makes university politics not just interesting, but actually gripping, and his sense of humor and eye for detail will transport you to times and places you've never really been. Warm, witty, insightful. Breakfast at Earl's is a great read. --Frank Montagnino, author, The Best Laid Plans, and other stories What we all want in short fiction is to be teased out of everyday life, to be taken where we've never been before. That new place does not need to be impossibly exotic, but must provoke seeing a scene with wide open eyes and senses. Whether in awe of the gutsy language in The Trail of the Ferret , or staff tensions in Bad Day at Captain's Mast , or the dumb good luck of the college boys eating at Earl's, each story lands us in a different place than where we began it. Filled with passageways to see life anew without even putting shoes on, Breakfast at Earl's is bright, tight, and inviting prose in diner-size bites from a master story teller. --Kit Salter, author of The Convenience of Environmental Ignorance; Editor, Carrying the Banner and Lean on the Wind Von Pittman's precise story-telling takes us effortlessly into the lives of a girls' basketball team in small town 1960s, and into the grey reality of Navy life aboard ship during the Vietnam war, and to small town Georgia in the days when undergraduate hi-jinks played out against the dark background of a still-active Ku Klux Klan. In each story his characters ring true. We've known these people. And yet they show us much more than we might expect about the workings of the human heart. Compelling stories, told in a light, but thought-provoking voice. A wonderful read. --Mike Trial, Author, The Icy Fire of Deception, Dark Music, and Rogue Patriot

"Von Pittman creates characters at odds with their lives, times, and circumstances--war, academia, sports--and portrays their eccentricities and faults with humor and compassion. Surprising, sometimes funny, richly insightful, these pieces have a sustaining quality. Reading Breakfast at Earl's feels like a long talk with a good friend. --Bridget Bufford, author, Cemetery Bird; Editor, Eternal as a Weed Von Pittman's unique voice makes even a dusty museum in Prague come alive. His skewed imagination takes you into situations that ring true even if (perhaps) they aren't real. His wry outlook makes university politics not just interesting, but actually gripping, and his sense of humor and eye for detail will transport you to times and places you've never really been. Warm, witty, insightful. Breakfast at Earl's is a great read. --Frank Montagnino, author, ""The Best Laid Plans,"" and other stories What we all want in short fiction is to be teased out of everyday life, to be taken where we've never been before. That new place does not need to be impossibly exotic, but must provoke seeing a scene with wide open eyes and senses. Whether in awe of the gutsy language in ""The Trail of the Ferret"", or staff tensions in ""Bad Day at Captain's Mast"", or the dumb good luck of the college boys eating at Earl's, each story lands us in a different place than where we began it. Filled with passageways to see life anew without even putting shoes on, Breakfast at Earl's is bright, tight, and inviting prose in diner-size bites from a master story teller. --Kit Salter, author of The Convenience of Environmental Ignorance; Editor, Carrying the Banner and Lean on the Wind Von Pittman's precise story-telling takes us effortlessly into the lives of a girls' basketball team in small town 1960s, and into the grey reality of Navy life aboard ship during the Vietnam war, and to small town Georgia in the days when undergraduate hi-jinks played out against the dark background of a still-active Ku Klux Klan. In each story his characters ring true. We've known these people. And yet they show us much more than we might expect about the workings of the human heart. Compelling stories, told in a light, but thought-provoking voice. A wonderful read. --Mike Trial, Author, The Icy Fire of Deception, Dark Music, and Rogue Patriot"

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Von Pittman has had the honor and pleasure of administering programs and teaching in the distance education units of four first-rate state universities. He has collected many prizes and awards for his writing, and his fiction and nonfiction has been published in many anthologies, magazines, and other publications dating from his working days to the present. Von is now retired and lives in Mid-Missouri.

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