The stories that accompany "Pilgrim"

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A slightly modified version of what I posted over on the ecosophia main blog:

A year or two ago I published a small collection of five short stories, called Shifted Visions. If anyone here wants a short read to add to their day off, hanging-out, and munching leftovers plans, I have .mobi and .epub versions available to give you (blurb below). Just email me at the gmail account that is preceded by my username here.

 

A paperback version also exists, but I don't have the ability to conjure free copies of those.

 

If you'd like a teaser and didn't see the previous post, the one flash-fiction-length story in the mix is here. 

 

Genre: magical realism/mythic fiction/urban fantasy-ish

rated probably pg-13 for one light cuss word (that is integral to the storyline :-) )

Back cover blurb as follows:

 

"Not everything is as it appears…

​​​​​​​and what appears will shift everything.

 

​​​​​​​From a river-shore park in the heat of summer to the stillness of a dense, ancient forest; on an early commute or at the door of a hardscrabble apartment, five striving, committed people find their lives turned upside down when the impossible intrudes on reality.

 

​​​​​​​A bored civil servant tries to spice up the daily grind and accidentally invokes an out-of-practice trickster-god...

An up-and-coming intern's likely promotion threatens her link with an affirming and mysterious apparition...

​​​​​​​A lonely man, consumed by emptiness, meets a miracle-working woman who quotes Mother Goose and requires his most closely guarded secret...

​​​​​​​A devout acolyte undertakes her order's sacred pilgrimage and goes astray into an encounter with the profane...

 

...each must decide whether or not to trust their senses, and each must make a life-altering choice."