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19 Short Stories Designed to Stimulate your Imagination and Interests

This book will serve two masters: the lovers of the quintessentially dramatic short story and the lovers of a Novelette – an epic not so long that it requires concentrated dedication to the analysis of the prime characters – and yet variegated enough so that it does not seem simplistic. The short stories, themselves, involve many different subjects, including the experiences of one of the authors’ family during the Second World War in Germany on an ill-fated trip to visit his dad’s birthplace in Austria. Here, they were forced to remain, un-expectantly, for over a year and a half after the war broke out, being unable to obtain steamship transport back to America. Others of the short stories comprise pure fiction. Hopefully, the author’s imagination will capture the mind of the readers and transplant them into a world possible to the readers, but not so simplistic that it bores them. A Novelette, written by Dr. Harrington, will explore in depth how humans progress through their varied stages of development into adulthood. It hides nothing embarrassing or confidential. It resonates with us all in its ability to understand and define the varied stages that we all might experience in the human life process. The book, therefore, provides the reader a full scope of reading presentations so that they can pick and choose what they prefer to reread or to forget— a sort of buffet of the literary art.