Tall Tales: A Collection of Stories

By O.A. Echezona

A collection of fourteen short stories that touch the heart and the ribs....

Tall Tales is a collection of short stories. The stories cover a diverse spectrum of experiences with emphasis on dark humor and exaggerations.

The first three stories(Query, Jekyll and Hyde and Monthly performance review)are based on the experiences of a single character, a bank worker named Bright as he carries out his daily duties.

Electric pole details the harrowing experience of a gentleman named Ben as he goes to work one morning only to discover that he couldn't pay for his transport fare. This story highlights the bizarre ways life is lived and lost in contemporary Nigeria.

Chronic hunger is about the irony of life through the eyes of a starving 13 year old.

New Money paints a picture of a dysfunctional society that blindly lusts after wealth regardless of its source.

Child Abuse details a typical day in the life of a house girl but with a twist in the end.

Sanitation day is a satire of sorts. People have become one with filth with disastrous consequences.

In The dream, the protagonist has a vivid dream about an eccentric spinster and her mango tree.

Just a little robbery is about three boys who decide to rob a mall, only for one of them to encounter unwanted consequences.

In The lift, Crystal enters a car ride that rapidly becomes a life and death struggle

When John's car broke down in an unknown terrain, the sight of one lonely house was more than welcome. However, he soon discovers that all is not as it seems in the Half way house.

Mabel's Weight problems are detailed to show that everything bad can get worse.

Farewell Party is set in the far future, when perfection is everything and flaws are not allowed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BGZLFP96
• ISBN13: 9798838281425
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"