Love is Many Things - Loneck, Alina
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagon The short stories in Love is a Many Splendored Things explore bite-size slices of life. Diverse and unpredictable in setting, situation, character and point-of-view, one story does not predict the next nor a beginning an ending. As the title indicates, love is explored beyond the initial splendour of romantic attachment. Each of the three sections begins with flash fiction shorts of a few paragraphs and extends into a story from the short's sweet spot of five thousand words. 'Hand in Hand' tells of love in…mehr

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagon The short stories in Love is a Many Splendored Things explore bite-size slices of life. Diverse and unpredictable in setting, situation, character and point-of-view, one story does not predict the next nor a beginning an ending. As the title indicates, love is explored beyond the initial splendour of romantic attachment. Each of the three sections begins with flash fiction shorts of a few paragraphs and extends into a story from the short's sweet spot of five thousand words. 'Hand in Hand' tells of love in partnership, 'Side by Side' love of one's homeland, family and community and 'In the Mirror', love of self. The stories in this collection both entertain and educate. Always psychologically astute, they move and amuse, offer insight and hard truths. At times they are as delightfully over-the-top as they are viscerally disturbing. Story order is arranged with a sensitivity to the reader's emotional journey. The ideal reader for this collection is someone who has an enquiring mind, reads to be educated as well as entertained and who wants to discover what lies beneath the surface of situations and relationships.
Autorenporträt
Alina Loneck was born in Nottingham in the UK in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in the mid-seventies.She was not a naughty child, but she was strong-minded, adventurous, and creative. By seven, she could show you one hundred and one things to make from a wooden peg. Her first story was about a zebra. She claims this had absolutely nothing to do with a sit-down protest she made in the middle of a zebra-crossing as a toddler. It did, however, have everything to do with a mother who had no grasp of the relativity of leg length to age and distance travelled.Alina has an Honours Degree in Psychology and English Literature from Leeds University and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. These explain why her eye colour can switch readily from steel blue to baby blue, dependent upon whether you are trying to put something over on her or whether the beauty of a sun-kissed day overcomes her.Upon her retirement six years ago, Alina relocated from Sydney's Northern Beaches to Coffs Harbour.At last, free to do as she wished, she discovered that writing fiction provided her with a sense of purpose and adventure, as it allowed her to tell imaginative lies to reveal profound truths; something she would never do in her everyday life.However, it is no word of a lie to say that her most precious roles in life are as mother and friend.