Published 2017 Feb.Micael Joll's first collection of short stories that take the reader to locations around the world in a ride that never lets up in its literary outlook.
A viola player in Depression-era San Francisco is surprised by the hidden talent of a panhandler he encounters. In Barbados, a middle aged voyeur confronts the object of his desires. A woman in Delhi plots revenge on her abusive husband. A German army corporal in WW2 has to decide between conflicting evils. In an isolated cabin in British Columbia a woman is subjected to a violent home invasion by her ex-convict husband. A veteran Winnipeg detective solves a string of arsons and a trail of bodies in an unconventional way. A bomber pilot returning home from a prisoner-of-war camp discovers life in post-war England is far from what he fought for. These are some of the stories in this appealing and diverse first collection of short stories from author Michael Joll.
MiddleRoad Publishers