Title: The Alaskan Dream
Author: Lynn Eisenhauer
Date: 2023
Quote: "This short story is a companion piece to my novel Sea of Fate."
If it's meant to advertise the novel, it doesn't. This short e-book doesn't even work as a complete short story. It introduces a character's situation but all the character does is christen his new boat, and he doesn't even spend onstage time thinking about the name. The story about this man may be worth telling--he's given up hope of finding his wife and child, which in fiction often means he's about to find them--but the short story gives no indication of it.
If writers are going to send out short stories as e-books in hope of selling more copies of their full-length e-books, those short stories should have been published in a good literary magazine.
And the Book Funnel copy I received also had the type sizes fouled up.
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