Letting Go: Stories

By Len Joy

t took me eight years, nine months and three days to write my first novel, American Past Time. My second novel, Better Days, will be released in the fall of 2018. I'm not sure how long that one took, but less than eight years.When I had trouble working on those novels I would write short fiction pieces. I am grateful to all of those folks who produce literary fiction journals. Especially the ones who published my stories. Producing a literary journal is a true labor of love.Someone asked me what the theme of my collection was. I hate those questions. I'm really bad at theme. I don't think about a theme when I'm writing the story. I'm just trying to tell a story that interests me (and hopefully someone else). I decided I could at least come up with a tagline for each story and maybe that would reveal to me a central theme of my work.Here's a few of them:"Riding a Greyhound Bus into the New World" - a widower searches for the innocent boy he used to be;"Dalton's Good Fortune" - a down-on-his luck ex-soldier gets a new perspective on his life from a fortune teller;"This Train Makes all the Stops" - a man tries to adapt to a new world after his wife dies;"Letting Go," - a woman in an emergency room waiting for word on her husband, reflects on her marriage;Most of the stories are about people who have lost something and are trying to find a way to move on with their lives. I hope you enjoy them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1981074910
• ISBN13: 9781981074914
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"