ANOTHER COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES

Here is another short story collection of mine. Entitled The Losing Ticket, it is the third of a trilogy of short story collections I published at the same time earlier this year, 2016. The second which is entitled Inside The Family, is already available on this page. Although the first one, What Goes Around is out, it is not yet available here but will soon be.

The Losing Ticket, just like Inside the Family, contains six stories. The tales in The Losing Ticket include A Matter of Choice which is an account of an abandoned son who reconnects with his long-lost father; Daddy`s Boy which is the story of a spoilt child who lands in misery because the father who doted him above all other children suddenly dies; One–Way Ticket which portrays the difficult life which children who travel overseas face despite the rosy picture painted to them back at home; and The Coffin Maker which picks up the narrative of a man whose coffin-making business is ruined by a populace that does not understand how anyone in his right thinking mind can choose to make coffins and sell them in a shop before people die.

The first two stories are taken from the author`s first book of short stories, The Wooden Bicycle and Other Stories, while the last two are from his second book of short stories, Cup Man and Other Stories.