If coins are the smallest denomination in currency, then short stories are their counterpart in literature, and equally valuable, eminently collectible. This book contains a collection of three novelettes and seven short stories from new author Cheryl King.Double Dare - A young boy witnesses a dreadful accident for which he feels responsible. What will happen when his past comes back to confront him?Red Sky at Dawn - The last thoughts of an elderly woman as she rides a plane to the destination of the crash.A Modern Fable - Aesop modernized - employing the sparse style of an Aesop fable but using a modern situation.Rare Coins - How will a confident, mature woman handle facing the father from whom she has been estranged for about forty years? Will they both be able to let go of the baggage of a lifetime?A Modern Fairytale - Fairytales are not a thing of the past, a remembrance of childhood, as one young woman discovers when she takes a solitary camping trip in the Ozark Mountains.Living Dead Will - Imagine you are alone in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park and your spouse dies of a sudden heart attack while ascending a mountain. Now imagine that in about thirty-six hours, give or take a few, they will reanimate as zombie. This is the situation our heroine must deal with in this tale of love and loss.Eurwiccan - Eurwiccan is a play on words, a merging of Eureka Springs with Wiccan. The figure at the center of the story lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and is a practicing Wiccan as well as owner of the local beauty shop, Pollyanna. See what happens when she meets Mandy.Heat - A dark look at the inside of domestic abuse and just how far one woman will go to end the torment.Mother's Tongue - A light-hearted mystery with a humorous aspect. A woman buys a plant at an estate sale and makes an astonishing discovery which will lead to a cross country journey and a new friend.Ricochet - Discover the allure and attraction a handgun wields and the deadly consequences when it falls into hands too young.Like a rare coin collection this collection of stories has currency in many different denominations. Dark and light, funny and horrific.
If coins are the smallest denomination in currency, then short stories are their counterpart in literature, and equally valuable, eminently collectible. This book contains a collection of three novelettes and seven short stories from new author Cheryl King.Double Dare - A young boy witnesses a dreadful accident for which he feels responsible. What will happen when his past comes back to confront him?Red Sky at Dawn - The last thoughts of an elderly woman as she rides a plane to the destination of the crash.A Modern Fable - Aesop modernized - employing the sparse style of an Aesop fable but using a modern situation.Rare Coins - How will a confident, mature woman handle facing the father from whom she has been estranged for about forty years? Will they both be able to let go of the baggage of a lifetime?A Modern Fairytale - Fairytales are not a thing of the past, a remembrance of childhood, as one young woman discovers when she takes a solitary camping trip in the Ozark Mountains.Living Dead Will - Imagine you are alone in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park and your spouse dies of a sudden heart attack while ascending a mountain. Now imagine that in about thirty-six hours, give or take a few, they will reanimate as zombie. This is the situation our heroine must deal with in this tale of love and loss.Eurwiccan - Eurwiccan is a play on words, a merging of Eureka Springs with Wiccan. The figure at the center of the story lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and is a practicing Wiccan as well as owner of the local beauty shop, Pollyanna. See what happens when she meets Mandy.Heat - A dark look at the inside of domestic abuse and just how far one woman will go to end the torment.Mother's Tongue - A light-hearted mystery with a humorous aspect. A woman buys a plant at an estate sale and makes an astonishing discovery which will lead to a cross country journey and a new friend.Ricochet - Discover the allure and attraction a handgun wields and the deadly consequences when it falls into hands too young.Like a rare coin collection this collection of stories has currency in many different denominations. Dark and light, funny and horrific.
