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    Your Pick: Selected Stories

    By V. S. Kemanis

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    About this ebook

    For fans of literary short fiction, Your Pick is the ideal introduction to the works of V.S. Kemanis.

    Carefully selected from the author’s four collections, the dozen stories in this volume are reader favorites. These are the stories that have resonated deepest, bringing tears and smiles, wonder and discovery. Simply, the best. “Kemanis knows how to build a story and keep it going” (Foreword Reviews on Love and Crime: Stories).

    From the introduction by the author:

    “Dear Readers, I’ve listened to you and learned from you. These are your picks. New Readers, take these stories and escape into worlds unknown yet familiar, imbued with universal situations, conflicts, and emotions. My characters are everyday people navigating the breadth of human experience: love, loss, attraction, repulsion, rejection, acceptance, despair, joy, temptation, loneliness, creativity, self-discovery, failure, success. Enter the lives of these characters and let them stir feelings deep within you.”

    Your Pick includes stories from these collections:

    Love and Crime: Stories (Top Shelf Book Awards 2018 Finalist): “Rosemary and Reuben” and “Journal Entry, Franklin DeWitt” (first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

    Dust of the Universe, tales of family (Commended—SPR Book Awards 2014): “My Latvian Aunt” (a Glimmer Train Top-25 award winner), “Like Love,” “Reckoning,” and “Dust of the Universe”

    Everyone But Us, tales of women (The Kindle Book Review Awards 2013 Nominee): “The Cost of Ice Cream,” “Pianissimo, Fortissimo,” and “The Missing and Uninvited”

    Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor (BP Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 Nominee): “Malocclusion,” “Gray Zone,” and “Fractals”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherV. S. Kemanis
    Release dateNov 23, 2018
    ISBN9780999785010
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    Your Pick: Selected Stories
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    V. S. Kemanis

    "Kemanis is a writer of substance" (The U.S. Review of Books); "unarguably gifted...a great talent" (SP Reviews); "an excellent writer" (Mystery Scene Magazine).V.S. Kemanis has enjoyed an exciting and varied career in the law and the arts. As an attorney, she has been a criminal prosecutor for county and state agencies, argued criminal appeals for the prosecution and defense, conducted complex civil litigation, and worked for appellate judges and courts, most recently as a supervising editor of appellate decisions. Ms. Kemanis is also an accomplished dancer and has performed, taught, and choreographed in California, Colorado, and New York.Short fiction by Ms. Kemanis has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Crooked Road Volume 3, The Best Laid Plans, and Me Too Short Stories, among others. Her award-winning stories are collected in five volumes, including Your Pick: Selected Stories, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for best story collection. Her novels of legal suspense feature prosecutor Dana Hargrove who, like the author, juggles family life with a high-powered professional career in criminal justice. Ms. Kemanis is a member of the Mystery Writers of America.

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