J. Robert and the Bomb: Short Stories

There are strange characters afoot in J. Robert and the Bomb: Short Stories. Take J. Robert Oppenheimer Simmons, for example, a genius, hoodwinked by his brother, Roger, into tag-team wrestling. Crushed by the Bonebreaker Brothers, he returns to destroy part of the Physics Building at MIT. Or Julius Peabody, a man obsessed with a woman in a painting. Or Wesley Grimes, a thin unathletic boy who plays baseball like a pro in a place just Yonder There. And then there was Seamus O’Bannon, an Irish immigrant with all the wisdom for growing up. Or the poignant and timeless “The Week Sousa Died.” These stories cover the gamit of genre, from comedic, to mystery to horror.