Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction

“Each story has a very different and unique plot with new and different characters as Cohen flawlessly spins every tale, taking the reader on a new adventure. I cannot wait to see what other tales Cohen has tucked into his other volumes.” 5-STARS: Amy Raines for Readers’ Favorite

NOW ON PRE-SALE

This is to announce the release of the first volume in a new anthology series, Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction . The book will go “live” on July 5, 2019, with the Kindle edition now available on pre-sale at Amazon.com.

Comprising 39 stories in a wide variety of genres, these tales—each “prompted” by an intriguing photograph—are sure to enthrall you with their humor, pathos, and intrigue. (The photographs in the Kindle edition are in color.)

A reprint of what can be found on the back cover is below, as is the link to the book’s page on Amazon.com:

“People ask: “Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?” Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California, provides one answer: “Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, ‘Isn't this a great family?' So, photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.” Beyond the physical, however, lie our memories and in them, the pictures stored in our minds’ eyes. As writers, aren’t these memories—both the physical and the “mementos of the mind”—the essence of our works, the prompts we use to spin words and phrases into literary tapestries our readers can use to discover something about life, a bit about us, perhaps, and, in the process, maybe even a little about themselves?

“In this volume, you’ll find a story inspired by a 1973 PBS television show in which a steam bath is presented as the afterlife; here, however, the afterlife is a bowling alley overseen by the shoe attendant. In another story, we read a Civil War soldier’s last letter home to his father, a letter filled with horrible descriptions of his imprisonment in Andersonville and his concern for the steamboat journey upon which he is about to embark. And not to leave you without something of the paranormal, there’s even a story about the deep South and the superstitions that abound in Cajun Country. In short (pun intended), there is something in this book for almost every genre and taste.”

This new anthology series follows on the heels of my well-received series of eight flash fiction anthologies, including the six Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction volumes as well Flash Fiction for Animal Lovers and Flash Fiction Stories of the Young.

I hope you will enjoy all of these anthologies and would love to hear what you think of the stories. You can write to me via my Website. As always, reviews are welcomed with open arms!

You’ll find Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction on Amazon.com at the URL below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

If you’d like to read one of the short stories in this new anthology, visit the book’s Webpage on my Website, and click on the hotlink for “View an Excerpt.” There, you’ll find an interesting story about an unfortunate young woman who attempted to escape her past and, in the process, lost everything.

https://www.theodore-cohen-novels.com...

As always, thanks for your support.

Ted