Foreword
Here are a few brief tales, from the upcoming book titled “A Pair of Shorts”. It started out with just a pair of stories, hence the original title; but after driving an 11 year old car1500 miles through blizzards and falling trees in the winter of 2018 to get from New England to the only tropical part of the ‘great 48’, the stories just started growing wild like the Hibiscus trees outside my Florida retreat. When the volume expanded to four stories I changed the title to “Two Pairs of Shorts”. By the time it’s published in mid-summer there could be 24 or more narratives in it, so you might look for a title called “A Dozen Pairs of Shorts”.
The Ghost Writer leads off this mini-collection followed by a ghost story first told by the great American huckster, P.T. Barnum.
The third tale in this volume, “The Observer” originally appeared as a stand-alone short narrative on Smashwords where it received some acclaim. One reviewer who gave it Five Stars said…. “This is one of the most unusual stories I've ever seen on Smashwords, and that's saying something. It's certainly an interesting take on the themes that it represents.”
Another reviewer in his Five Star rating said, “This author has the skill to bend storylines that seem totally unrelated into a plot that grips you from beginning to end.”
Whether “The Observer” lives up to these generous assessments is for you to decide. Please let me know if you like it. My contact information is at the end of the book. At present there are a total of five stories included in this free sample version of the book. Check back here once in a while for an updated version because I intend to add a few more.