Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction - Book 5—"live" on June 19, 2022

This is to announce the release of the fifth book in the Mementos Anthologies series, Mementos: A Unique Collection of Short Stories & Flash Fiction - Book 5 , 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 a long funeral procession, comprising some 100 cars and motorcycles, the latter mostly big Harley-Davidson touring models. Who could their drivers possibly have been honoring? And what was the captain of the ocean-going freighter Duchess of Montrose, which was tied up in Porto Grande Bay, Cape Verde Islands, thinking as he watched a storm approaching that already had dropped his barometer to levels seen only in the strongest of hurricanes? 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 5 on Amazon.com at the URL below:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4HJ4RQ4

If you’d like to read one of the stories in Book 5, visit the book’s Webpage on my Website, and click on the hotlink for “View an Excerpt.” There, you’ll find an unusual story about an airman’s homecoming from WWII.

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