Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction - Book 4—"live" on October 28, 2021

This is to announce the release of the fourth book in the Mementos Anthologies series, Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction - Book 4 , by Theodore Jerome Cohen.

People simply can’t get enough of the short stories and flash fiction from the creative mind of Theodore Jerome Cohen. What surprises many are the photographic prompts he uses as inspiration for his tales . . . stories that span the spectrum of genres from romance to murder mysteries, and from historical fiction to the paranormal.

When talking to readers, he is often asked: “Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?” His response can be found in the words of Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California: “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.” Said Cohen: “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 about an FBI agent who ended up accidentally, on purpose, dead. In another tale, we wait with Mildred, an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s, her son, and her daughter-in-law at Gate 6 in Philadelphia International Airport for Mildred’s husband’s plane to arrive. How long must they wait? And what are we to make of the true origins of the Broadway play West Side Story. You may be surprised to learn the production almost never happened. In short (pun intended), there is something in this book for almost every genre and taste.

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

You’ll find Book 4 on Amazon.com at the URL below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...

If you’d like to read one of the stories in Book 4, visit the book’s Webpage on my Website, and click on the hotlink for “View an Excerpt.” There, you’ll find a “Christmas letter” that bears a close resemblance to one written by a dear friend of author’s that is strikingly different from the type of letter you receive from friends and relatives during the holidays.

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