As this year's showcase enters the last few days, I am really pleased to be able to feature four short stories from Sue Wald's ''I might actually have lost the Plot' compilation.
Sue provided me with the following explanations about each of these extracts:
The first one is an anecdote called 'Bluffing' about moving from one of the big Canary Islands (Tenerife) to one of the small ones (El Hierro).
The second one is an anecdote called 'Moving House with the Troupe' about leaving the Canary Islands for our new home on the northern shores of mainland Spain.
The third is called 'Saint Lucia's Eyes' and is an anecdote inspired by the beautiful beaches of the Cantabrican Coast of Galicia, and 'The Life of Brian'.
The last one is an anecdote from when I trained as a geriatric nurse at 55, so I could take better care of my ailing grandmother, then 97, and is called 'The Captain's Flags'.
You can read them all by clicking here.
Sue provided me with the following explanations about each of these extracts:
The first one is an anecdote called 'Bluffing' about moving from one of the big Canary Islands (Tenerife) to one of the small ones (El Hierro).
The second one is an anecdote called 'Moving House with the Troupe' about leaving the Canary Islands for our new home on the northern shores of mainland Spain.
The third is called 'Saint Lucia's Eyes' and is an anecdote inspired by the beautiful beaches of the Cantabrican Coast of Galicia, and 'The Life of Brian'.
The last one is an anecdote from when I trained as a geriatric nurse at 55, so I could take better care of my ailing grandmother, then 97, and is called 'The Captain's Flags'.
You can read them all by clicking here.
About the Author
As a Thursday Child and multilingual language teacher, she has helped enough school children (and a few adults) on their way to be able to look back on a life not wasted and heave a sigh of relief, while enjoying the scenery and the cool breeze drifting in from the ocean.
Under her Nom de Plume 'Sue Wald', she has put together 'A Day in the Life', an Anthology comprised of Tristan Stories - 'Tristan Radler's Opinion of Life' - (Fred's Blog Fiction Showcase), the Short Memoir 'Players' (Fred's Blog Memoir Showcase), which takes the reader on a journey through time from the 1990's in Nürnberg in Franconia, Germany, to her granddad's hometown Zwittau in Sudetenland, now in the Czech Republic, in the 1920's, offering glimpses into her grandfather's life before, during, and after WWII, including an entertaining lunch encounter with the Oskar Schindler, as well as peeks into her own life and ghosts of the past; as well as a Short Thriller, 'Faith Value', set in the present, and in her chosen neighbourhood, the lush Cantabrican coast of Galicia; 'I might actually have lost the Plot' is the title of the Collection of other Short Stories - also part of the anthology - of which these four extracts are the latest entries.
As a Thursday Child and multilingual language teacher, she has helped enough school children (and a few adults) on their way to be able to look back on a life not wasted and heave a sigh of relief, while enjoying the scenery and the cool breeze drifting in from the ocean.
Under her Nom de Plume 'Sue Wald', she has put together 'A Day in the Life', an Anthology comprised of Tristan Stories - 'Tristan Radler's Opinion of Life' - (Fred's Blog Fiction Showcase), the Short Memoir 'Players' (Fred's Blog Memoir Showcase), which takes the reader on a journey through time from the 1990's in Nürnberg in Franconia, Germany, to her granddad's hometown Zwittau in Sudetenland, now in the Czech Republic, in the 1920's, offering glimpses into her grandfather's life before, during, and after WWII, including an entertaining lunch encounter with the Oskar Schindler, as well as peeks into her own life and ghosts of the past; as well as a Short Thriller, 'Faith Value', set in the present, and in her chosen neighbourhood, the lush Cantabrican coast of Galicia; 'I might actually have lost the Plot' is the title of the Collection of other Short Stories - also part of the anthology - of which these four extracts are the latest entries.
