The Extremists / 14 Stories (ePub)

The Extremists / 14 Stories

Life and love as seen through the eyes of fourteen central characters on a quest for human connection. This psychologically astute and literary collection of short stories will keep you reading to the end.

Darian writes a less-than-romantic letter to an ex revealing a traumatic past in The Extremists.

Magic realism enters The House of Lost Men. Carl, on the spectrum and lonely, develops an unlikely friendship. Tragedy forces him beyond his comfort zone.

The Cocido is a story about the strength of family and kinship. Sophisticated professional, Eva, visits her family home in Spain and is surprised her rustic farmer brother has found romance in the hills of Andalusia. They must act together upon hearing an urgent cry from the almond grove in the dead of night.

The Ravens is a dystopian tale told through the rye internal humour of the unnamed protagonist. He visits the barber as a pandemic weaves through his seaside town. Acute observations of people and a world in decline.

To mention but four of these fourteen riveting tales. The author brings an assured voice to these pieces of short fiction vividly evoking a variety of environments and moods with a good dose of humour.

From the Author of the hilarious: Sex & Death / A Farce in 34 Notes. A series of very naughty observational notes by the eccentric Sebastian Field-Marshall as he and his wife attend a funeral like no other.

Foibles / Three Darkly Humorous Novellas: A journey through the lives of three flawed inner-city denizens. An interconnected series of novellas told with compassion and humour.