Celebrating the Short Story

by C.D. Sutherland, Beverly Flanders, Carole Lehr Johnson

The writing styles used in short stories can be somewhat unusual or surprising to its readers, sometimes their writers use literary techniques which might wear a reader down if employed through the length of a novel. Short stories make the perfect fodder to create anthologies. You will discover the seven short stories contained in this Celebrating of the Short Story are as diverse in technique and theme as one could hope for. Nevertheless, they are united in the fact that they are each in and of themselves short stories.Celebrating the Short Story takes you on seven diverse journeys. Go along with Delores Strong to what might be the end of the world in C. D. Sutherland's Roll Call. Experience a special Christmas celebration between a daughter and her mother in Beverly Flander's The Stroke of Christmas. See a widow solve a case of a missing prize rose in Judy Burford's The Theft. Follow a sister's adventure of discovery in Carole Lehr Johnson's Edge of the Sea. Discover how an entire clan was saved to alter history in Tammy Kirby's Saving the McKinnon. See how a young girl's life was changed because someone cared in Eileen K. Copeland's A Christmas Feral. Finally, experience a launch into space in Eileen K. Copeland's A Dream of Snow.

111 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2018

About the author

C.D. Sutherland is a B-52 pilot turned novelist with his THE CHRONICLES OF SUSAH series. These novels defy conventional classification as they blend action and emotional tension with technology and spiritual intrigue in a coming-of-age story wrapped in an epic adventure set in the antediluvian age.

Born in Virginia to the son of a coalminer who escaped a life in the dark Appalachian mines by joining the U.S. military, C.D. Sutherland also joined the military. After high school, he served in the Air Force for thirty-two years, seeing much of the world and doing things most men have only dreamed about doing.

Nowadays, he writes as his adventures inspire him and is President of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers. Additionally, he has sheriffed the annual Louisiana Authors Posse anthology roundup since 2016.

Reviews

[Joan Edwards · Rating 5 out of 5]

These 7 short stories are bound to fill your heart with sadness, joy, and surprise. They are intriguing and hold your interest from
beginning to end. I highly recommend that you read them.