Description
Cautionary Tales transcends time and place, to a world where appearances deceive, ordinary assumptions don’t apply, and slipstreams of magic both alter and illuminate the reality below the surface. Collisions between rich and poor, and also conflicts within families, have the potential to end tragically, triumphantly, or occasionally even hilariously. The desire to subvert the boundaries of earthbound existence can evoke empathy even when it seems to end badly.
A woman quits eating to escape enslavement to money and to set her inner artist free. Two men try to commit the perfect crime by killing off their families’ elderly and increasingly incompetent matriarchs, but encounter obstacles they didn’t expect. People, and also a philosophizing mouse, hope that an epiphany and the courage to act on it will turn the tide of Fate, and that it won’t be too late for a do-over or redemption.
Three of these stories address the dark side of games, and how their addictive nature can ensnare and obsess the hearts and minds of players. That danger, latent but incredibly powerful, lurks below the surface even of games considered both classic and innocuous. The author is a backgammon champion.
The book concludes with a short novel containing themes of sex and violence, friendship and betrayal, church and state, and rebellion and its consequences, set in fourteenth-century Spain.
"Details
Publisher - GammonGo Publishing
Language - English
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Mary Hickey
Published Date - May 31 2023
ISBN - 9780988252721
Dimensions - 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 167
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