Hiding In Theaters and Other Stories

Greetings:

   I have just published my first collection of stories, and am proud to bring it to your attention.  It comprises a novella and eight short stories written since 2010 between novels. What excites me most is that, except for one of the short pieces, all of the stories deal with contemporary subjects other than those addressed in my novels (see blurb below). Early reviews are very encouraging, and Amazon has stocked almost twice the number of copies I requested. I would welcome any feedback you would care to provide.

Fred Harrison

   The short story is a snapshot of its author’s perception of the world in which he or she is living, its denizens and events illustrating (not always intentionally) the dominant features of the times.  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s many stories, for example, illuminated the hedonism of the nineteen-twenties, while those of master spy storyteller, Eric Ambler, evoked the clouds gathering over Europe in the nineteen-thirties.  Frederick Harrison’s focal point is the second decade of the twenty-first century, his stories sometimes serious, sometimes not.  The Universal Toka-Woka, for example, involves a device for delivering fast food over the Internet; the #JesusApp chronicles the adventures of three young geeks seeking to gain fame and fortune channeling their inner Zuckerberg.  A Distant Date Certain, however, tells what happens when the brilliant success of NASA’s interstellar exploration program reveals more than we really want to know.  There are eight short stories in the collection, the title novella being sort of a bonus.  It is the story of a man and woman who meet in a movie theater, while hiding from life, and are reborn.

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