Detours: Twelve Stories

Uncontrolled obsessions and murky secrets lead to chaotic personal detours.Outwardly, the characters of DETOURS evoke everyday souls-an annoying co-worker, a fussy school crossing guard, a weird fitness class member, a ditzy drugstore clerk. Yet beneath their ordinary veneers bubble extraordinary impulses about to be unleashed.Who would expect them to do the unthinkable-plot a child's kidnapping, get revenge with a Boa constrictor, risk one's life to possess an alluring stranger, or assume a false identity? These tales of lives upended by unbridled fixations explore how far someone will deviate to chase compulsions and hide deceptions. A respected but tormented psychiatrist furtively collects baby dolls. A dissatisfied husband seeks love on the internet with disastrous results. A lonely young man stalks an unsuspecting girl, intending to capture her. A sophisticated career woman careens into hysteria when her beloved pet parrots vanish. A young woman, driven to prostitution by economic need, encounters tragedy after falling in love with a suave client.Private struggles and public follies of these conflicted characters run the gamut from mischief to mayhem. They abandon inhibitions and leave normalcy behind in desperate bids to fulfill far-fetched notions. Lives are spun around and derailed in pursuit of their passion.Escapades of the DETOURS characters mirror the confounding enigmas of our human condition, and the myriad mysteries that lie within us all.

• | Author: Cynthia Dennis
• | Publisher: CKBooks Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 14, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1949085163
• | ISBN-13: 9781949085167