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.