William Brakes
ASIN: B016VAJ49K
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 402
'fragments: naked & bright' is a collection of fourteen short stories. Each story is a window offering a glimpse into a world at a moment of crisis. The protagonists may or may not be aware of the significance of the issues that confront them, but either way we watch them try and negotiate their paths through these issues, successfully or otherwise.. All the complex variety that life provides is encountered here: there is humour, romance, triumph and disaster, crime and intrigue, in packages offering interest, occasional challenge and lots of entertainment.Although each story can be read independently, there are links between the tales, and the sharp-eyed reader will relish the opportunity to spot thematic connections, re-appearing characters, recurring symbols and enjoy tracking the progression through the sequence of stories. There follows a brief synopsis of some of these stories: if ...