Survivable Losses

How well do we really know the people in our lives?

Is it true that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger?

Wives, husbands, siblings, acquaintances, and colleagues discover that the answers to these questions are not simple, as they contend with deception, secrecy, and mixed signals in their relationships with each other.

They try to deal with life-changing ordeals.

But the aftermaths are not what they envisioned.

"The International Review of Books has awarded Survivable Losses (written under the pseudonym Francesca Stokes) their Gold badge of achievement, and has written the following review: 

Stokes left me with the uncanny feeling of looking deep into the character’s soul only to see my own reflection. The experience was like looking into a mirror, a mirror that, if I stood before it long enough, threatened to reveal things I hadn’t known were there. 

One is left with the sense of watching a mind travelling between planes of existence. Thus, I suggest the reader take a holistic approach to the work, rather than view each story as a discrete unit. "