Three Bridges: An Anthology

By L Mahayla Smith

In these eleven stories, the six authors, members of a group of writers who have met monthly in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, for almost a decade, demonstrate their narrative skills and their enormous diversity of interests and experiences. For this book, their second collection, they have chosen to write about bridges--the three bridges of downtown Knoxville, the bridges they've known in other cities, and of course the metaphorical bridges that span gaps between individuals and groups of people.The stories deal with domestic violence, alcoholism, bullying, crime, and dysfunctional families but also with the kindness of strangers, the courage to change, and the magic of love. Two are ghost stories, two are historical fiction, six are realistic, one might be called fantasy, and one is science fiction, but none of them fit snugly into these or any other categories. They are as diverse as the authors who wrote them, alike only in that all of them are about the bridges, real or imagined, that connect people of different backgrounds, places, and circumstances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692309012
• ISBN13: 9780692309018
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Word Portrait Writing Services
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"