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Ends
In 1995 I self-published my first book of short-stories and called it "Dead Ends". The title was chosen from the main theme of almost every story included in the collection. It was also quite appropriate for my personal disposition at the time, as I was actually involved with writing my way out of a desperate situation. I even went so far as to write a short-story about a man in a very similar predicament, called "Report for the Defense", and included it in the collection. The collection was actually composed of various possible alternatives confronting anyman such as myself in the same situation. I will admit that I explored various contemplations upon the theme of suicide, and those are included, but after that fact, I also reached an impasse where I realized that anyone who is desperate enough to contemplate suicide should also be willing to take less extreme chances, and many of the other stories followed such lesser extremities. Included also in the collection are my own original science-fiction and fantasy short-stories following more familar themes, such as "Ice on the Moon", about 2 men who realize their boyhood dream of venturing into outer space and to the Earth's moon, and "The Master Projector", about 2 very different characters in separate experiences with the same Last Man on Earth scenario. Three of the stories in the collection are closer to reality-fiction than sci-fi or fantasy. One was "The Mediocre Man", about a man who loses his job and decides he needs a vacation, so he goes for a country drive on his own in the friendly backyard of the USA, only to realize that it isn't quite as friendly to single males on their own as he was led to think. Another was "The Drifter", about a desperate man who decides to commit suicide at sea and things don't quite work out the way he expected. The last one is "Hivent: An Enlitenment", about a man who has lost everything but his car who heads for another city across the state for a new start and takes on a rather peculiar hitch-hiker with an odd little book. |
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