The Reunion and Other Stories

By Graham McKenzie

Graham McKenzie presents eight short stories in which past and present meet. In the longest story in the collection, "The Reunion," Owen Gair's nostalgia is checked by a snub during the forty-five year reunion of his class at his school reunion. Other stories similarly explore this intersection of memory and truth. An affair reaches its dying days in "City Square." The young and inquisitive Antoinette Ross receives strange warnings and messages, either from an earlier century or her own imagination, in "The Chill." In "After Work," a world-weary travel agent accompanies his father to his favorite pub and dreams about his vivacious young coworker. An older man looks back on the best days of his life in "Traces." "Such Sad Pleasures" reunites McKenzie's readers with Alan Orr, the protagonist of his debut novel, "A Florentine Influence". In this story, Orr has traveled on to Venice to seek out new experiences. In bookshops, in city streets, and in the most magnificent cities in the world, McKenzie's characters confront their true natures-and the ghosts of the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544734344
• ISBN13: 9781544734347
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"