R.M. Ahmose Presents: Troubling Tales to Relax With
Publisher: RoseDog Books-Dorrance Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781434990228
First sentence: "Home Improvement"  : The Commander of the Rosetta ordered the songs to be played repeatedly.

"That Good Image" : Mr. Redd's three daughters and his wife watched him from the kitchen window as he sawed fallen tree limbs in the back yard.

"Last Meeting at Frannies' " : In their white nurse's uniforms, the two women standing in the open doorway were barely distinguishable from the backdrop of bright sunlight behind them.
Description: Troubling Tales is a book of three near novel-sized stories.  Story One is  "Home Improvement."  It incorporates a science fiction dimension without being specifically of that genre.  Story Two is called "That Good Image." It deals heavily and controversially with issues of race in a way that only the most sensitive and view-balanced author could address adequately.  In the third story, "Last Meeting at Frannies'," a middle-aged woman with emotional problems is the central character. She has phoned the police a number of times to report her discovery of crimes committed by friends of hers. The police don't know whether to take her report seriously or not.
Notes: Troubling Tales  is designed to rouse the reader out of comfortable acceptance of the reality devised to the present time. In short, like all the author's stories, this selection promotes a re-thinking of one's understanding of the world around.
Table of contents: label: Three Tales
title: "Home Improvement"  and  "That Good Image"  and  "Last Meeting at Frannies' "
pagenum: p.1-p.78-p.151