Wings Upon Flames: A Collection of Short Stories
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2018-06-14
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
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Wings Upon Flames examines the human connection of love and relationships
balanced between working class-Blue collar characters, searching for their place in this
world.
This diverse collection journeys through the characterization of light-hearted men and
women interwoven into an alluring comedic, real-life drama.
Wings Upon Flames ventures through a fantastical world of a young man that
experiences the visual spectacle of a dragon.
Life Stream explores a relationship between father and son after years of silence.
Jake blames his father for the death of his mother when he was younger. Through Jake’s
tragic memories of his childhood while visiting his father on his death bed, Jake bonds
with his father’s nurse who also shares a tragic past.
The Audition serves as the acting life-style of Sara, a young ambitious woman
planning to make a career in Hollywood. Her past may be the vital piece to land the role
of a lifetime in a film that could be her big break.
While on summer vacation at their grandparent’s cottage in the Georgia
mountains Donna and Cheryl experience a ghost that haunts them into adulthood in The
Path.
An intense killer is on the loose in the town of Twin Lakes and Detective Donald
Granger is on a mission to solve it.
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Each story is constructed with a splash of humor, fear, and love, while exploring
the humanity of each character through their faults and victories. Wings Upon Flames
boasts a diverse collection of short stories that soars through the flames of destruction in
an ever-changing world of the human condition.
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Short stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Comedy