Fancy Shop
by Valeri Stanoevich
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Pub Date 10 Aug 2021 | Archive Date 21 Oct 2021
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Description
This slim book is for the reader who asks questions and seeks answers. Does a life follow a predictable path or is it part of existential chaos? What makes an individual go against fate? Is it really worth making the effort? The characters you will find here face these questions.
The short stories presented here take place at different times (past, present, future) with different fantasy levels – from stories that are nearly real to phantasmagorias and new Gothic. The characters are also different: knights, anonymous people, dreamers, outsiders, crazy ones, technocrats, cockroaches, holders of secret knowledge.
What unites them is the urge (gradual or sudden) to leave the orderly system of their lives, attracted by the alluring hope that they can find or create another world of dreams come true, inexpressible truths and oases of redemption of past guilt.
On the way to their new identities, they move freely between reality and fantasy. They are in constant conflict with themselves, and the front line is the line dividing the two hemispheres of their brains. The stories are very short but each has a complex plot, provocative suggestions and a surprising end. Without in any way denying the traditional concepts of good-evil, simple-profound, they lead the reader into worlds in which paradox is a synonym of universal meaning.
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781800466494 |
| PRICE | US$0.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 200 |
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Featured Reviews
BlurbGoes H, Reviewer
Fancy Shop
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After reading the book's description, I was excited to read Fancy Shop. My excitement was short lived.
Have you ever received an email that you don't fully understand? This happens when the sender doesn't explain himself, maybe because some of the details he want's to transmit are obvious to him, so he skips them, even when such details are not obvious to you, and you need them to fully understand what you're reading. This is a constant in Fancy Shop, the author skips over important information in every tale.
To make matters worst, the author looses track of who's telling the tale. For instance: a tale starts as a first person view and suddenly, and without warning, changes to third person view.
Now, if you're expecting short stories, you'll be disappointed, these are flash fiction stories, some no longer than four or five pages.
I wish I could find the book that the blurb promised, it didn't happened. Maybe it just lacks a lot of editing, I don't know. What I do know is that some of these stories could be seeds to great stories.
Thank you for the free copy!
