Fragile Boundaries and other stories: A Short Stories And Flash Fiction Collection

by R.E. Vaughn

R.E Vaughn's "Fragile Boundaries and other stories" is a collection of twenty-five contemporary realistic short fiction pieces, each story an unsettling but realistic glimpse through the window of other people's lives. Readers will find this new and upcoming author's daring and provocative stories more character driven than plot intensive, with an emphasis on the imperfections of the human dynamic, placing ordinary people in unusual yet believable situations and settings, some dark and malevolent, others light and humorous, all undeniably interesting. Inside you'll find a reader favorite "Lambs Shouldn't Mess with Lions," a bruising memory about young people who love and hate like crazy, set in a time when grievances were settled with fists and not guns, by a generation then just as vulnerable to all the temptations and dreams as teens of today; "Joy Ride," a journey of discovery for a couple in a dying relationship that can't be rescued; and "How To Set A Woman On Fire," in which a young mother, recently widowed, lets known her priorities to the mortician relentlessly pursuing her affection. Writing in the voices of characters readers aren't likely soon to forget, R.E. Vaughn offers a unique view in the everyday lives and dreams of totally ordinary people in situations not so ordinary.

165 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2020

About the author

Feral Writer | Book Fiend | Southerner | Veteran | Pilot | Mad Scientist | All Around Stubborn Person

I write Contemporary Realistic Literature Flash Fiction and Short Stories. The angst and issues of living in a less-than-perfect world predominate throughout my works.

A Southerner by virtue of ancestry, birth, and choice, I've also lived in Europe, and for a short time on the Big Island of Hawaii. I currently make my home in the South, not far from the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and the beaches of South Carolina.

An avid reader, I prefer the works of Leslie Pietrzyk, Hillary Jordan, Pinckney Benedict, Chanelle Benz, Tim McLaurin, A.M.Homes, Richard Russo, Donald Hall, Raymond Carver, Lauren Groff, Gretel Ehrlich, Daniel Woodrell.