Download or read book Cops, Jungles, and Santa Claus written by Larry D. Flora and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise or trap? In the novella "Canyon," set in the 1950s, the Hiller family lives in some of the most beautiful country in California, on the Upper Sacramento River near Mt. Shasta. The father, Frank, is an intelligent but frustrated man without enough education to escape a blue-collar railroad job. The mother, Connie, and the three children live in the shadow of his anger, just as their home town, Dunsmuir, lies in the shadow of the mountains. In the story "Sump," set a decade later, the oldest son, John, gets his chance to leave but it may already be too late. Fear has become a habit, and how can he hope to love any other place as much as he loves this one?