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Unbecoming: Selected Short Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Karen Keeley
Published: Aug 22 2025
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
We are the stuff of stories. Often, stories foreshadow an unbecoming, a kind of unravelling of who we thought we were, so steadfast in our loyalties to family and friends.
First up, a young child who isn't all she appears to be, most unbecoming to the young wife desperate for a child of her own. We also have a distraught husband searching for his wife who makes the dubious decision to stop at a roadside diner. Ignorance foreshadows his unbecoming. Two of eighteen tales in UNBECOMING: Selected short stories.
Some of the stories were previously published, others are new. Each takes a kernel of truth and bends it in some way with the hope for a better outcome, a way to beat the odds. Which brings us to the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. If only it were that simple.
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