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The Drive Behind "Could've Been Something" (Part 4 of the things I wish readers knew article series.)
The short story.
Some rather enjoy them.
Others skip over them.
I see short stories as the opportunities for reading a whole story in one sitting — Never judge a story based on its number of pages!
Could’ve Been Something is my collection of short stories.
I’d like you to know that it is full of stories that have been written over the past three decades. They are a very different and unique collection of nine. They were written in different phases of my life from teenage years to college to single years and married motherhood. Life never stays the same and sometimes situations hit you differently than when you first go through it. This collection is a perfect slice of life.
Within them, I dove into my passion for the 1920s Prohibition Era Chicago Mob for the stories “Morgue” and “Fate Skips a Beat.” I also explored my fascination with Scotland and the love for a childhood Cairn Terrier puppy with “Terrors of the Moor.” We also meet for the first time a murder-mystery author who is so lost in her own world, she can’t see what is happening among her own best friends in “One Hell of a Best Seller.” Two of these particular longer read hold the distinction of introducing you to characters you will meet in novels — our murder-mystery author Gia Bennington and her best friend Mason Beaudrie become primary characters in several Allegheny Chronicles novels (this story is told from Gia’s point of view) while Detective Inspector Angus McGee in “Terrors of the Moor” earns a main characters spot in an upcoming novel of mine.
In the shorter reads, we explore a total fictional moment of motherhood with “Just another Mom blog.” I once loved to read psychological thrillers and murder-mysteries and in face decided to go to college and major in Administration of Justice just to write more intense novels…Then “Steam Cleaned Society” emerged from a project and I haven’t been able to read, watch, or write that genre. “Lessons of Life” came to be in my college days when I played around with poetry, combining that with letters a friend and I used to write back and forth as teens. Our ninth story is a very empathetic look at mental health and veterans with “The Invisible Bastard.”
These stories will stick with you.
Vibes for these nine stories include:
Closed-door romance
Historical Fiction
Orphan
Family
Scars
Reunion
Military/Veterans
Exes interfere
Mob/Mafia
Friends to Lovers
Secrets
Boss’s daughter
Fake Marriage
Slow Burn
Murder
Red Herring
Widower
Don’t wait — This collection is available at Amazon on kindle, Kindle Unlimited, print, and on Audible! Start binge-reading now and let me know which one affects you the most!
Did you catch the other parts of this series? Catch out what I wish you knew about my Along the Way duology and the Oscar Company Novels by clicking the articles below!!
CEDAR GROVE DUOLOGY
OSCAR COMPANY NOVELS
Thank you for reading!