The Woman In The Window: A Collection of Short Stories - Softcover

Fyfe, WD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539372383 ISBN 13: 9781539372387

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Woman In The Window is not about relationships. It's about the delicious ache in the bottom of your belly -- that sweet primeval that won't go away; the wolf of our emotions, hungry and hunting. These eight tales are about people who have been living their lives cocooned in their accumulated habits, but suddenly, by chance or by choice, they travel beyond the reach of their familiar world. Without the thin cloak of everyday life around them, they find themselves alone in the wilderness, trying to understand whether they are prey or predator. In "The Last Romance Of Jasper Conrad," Frances says to Jasper, “Just – just because I’m ordinary doesn’t mean I can’t have something more. I look around and I see my life and ..." But Frances isn't ordinary, and Jasper knows that. In "The Dying of Daniel," when Susan asks “... God, are we ever going to be normal?" Peter replies, “Normal? Normal just happens.... There's nothing you can do about it." But for Susan there is no normal, and there never has been. "Ordinary," "normal," "average:" these are words we use to protect ourselves. They keep our emotions, our imagination and our sensuality at bay. However, as the characters in The Woman In The Window discover, in the sleepless soul of 4 o'clock in the morning, these words are meaningless. The truth is, we are all only as ordinary as we require ourselves to be.

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About the Author

Before WD called himself a writer, he worked at a number of different jobs -- from stacking lumber to interior design. He studied English at UBC and creative writing at ASU (where one of his teachers, Rita Dove, taught him the importance of the tale.) He has written for radio, magazines and newspapers, but never television. He’s published both fiction and nonfiction in Great Britain and the US. He thinks he reads French passably, is working on his Dutch and speaks enough Spanish to get from A to B and find the toilet. He has interviewed John Cleese, Peter Ustinov, Margaret Drabble, Kenneth Branagh and enough other famous people to make him a hopeless name dropper. His not-so-secret passions are history and trivia, and he has never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit — although he did come 4th one drunken Quiz Night at the Uxbridge in Notting Hill, London. He lives on the Pacific Ocean -- but not close enough to see the water. So he spends his days writing a blog twice a week (www.wdfyfe.net) and working diligently on a novel, No Safe Harbors (a Dreyfus and Emily adventure.) It’s a wonderful life, and he has only one regret: he can’t type faster.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539372383
• ISBN 13: 9781539372387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236