Ink Blots: Shorts & Beginnings

The collection of stories in INK BLOTS relates to everyone. We all look for hope in our most desperate hour. We all feel joy, sadness, excitement, and muted panic. There is the beginning, the middle, and the twist.

In the short-short fiction "Life-Saver," will the ocean overtake Gheorge and Lou sixty miles out at sea? Will the boys' day out at sea demonstrate the strength of friendship through any storm or hubris before the fall?

The non-fiction, memoir, short-short story of "Spade" reiterates the most difficult conversation of the author's life as her father tells her that he has cancer, and he has accepted his approaching death.

In the short fiction, "Strike Three," it's all about a gorgeous college girl in love with her neighbor's boyfriend. She does not like this neighbor who not only has this wonderful boyfriend, but routinely takes her parking spot.

In the next short fiction, "Butter Won't Melt," the biggest art heist in history has what may have really happened.

In the beginning short fiction, "Curve & Flashlight," the world of a body-shop tech opens to the reader. The people who fix your cars live in a brutal world on the edge of a knife. This is the story of the girl who loved one of them with every part of her being.

In the short fiction, "Ticket to Anywhere, But Here," a police officer tries to help a young college girl who can't remember what happened to her the night before he met her.

In the short weird-fiction, "Elevator," a father shelters his daughter in a bizarre building that keeps her safe as he attempts to escape from his job.

In the short-short memoir the beauty of the day can be felt in "Morning Frost."

In "Waiting," the hope and hunger of life that we all feel comes in the forms of buttery pancakes and a twenty-dollar bill.

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