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A Handful of Lives, A World of Meaning
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Ewings Publishing LLC
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
★★★★★ A fun-to-read collection of short stories!
Heartfelt, clever, and witty writing. Derryl Berry's Short Stories will make you think, smile, and laugh out loud. Nicely captures human experiences and also includes imaginative fictional stories. I highly recommend this book.
-A Williams, Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021
The genre and style of Derryl G. Berry's A Handful of Lives, A World of Meaning is quite varied. Some are straightforward, first or third-person POV. Some are off-the-wall perspectives and musings. Some are circular in that they begin and end pretty much at the same point, e.g., Let's Act Normal. Many of Derryl's short stories began as an idea that came to him while hiking and were fleshed out later, e.g., Five Shots, and The Empty Hook. Others were triggered by a passing comment, e.g., Who in the World Is Jimmy Kent? A few have a touch of biographical near reality. Others are plain fantasy, e.g., Misspelled and Kong Is Dead. A few are retellings of biblical stories. Others, Derryl doesn't know from where the ideas came.
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