Splinters: A collection of short stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781705812679)

Splinters is a collection of short stories that find their momentum in our intricate lives. The past that becomes vivid one more time, the eyes that settle on the fragments of who we are. Ephemeral, fragile in essence, all the pieces and all the mishaps that end up building our humanity. It's a trail of time, a trail of us, a few notes that send us back a few years or simply echo again and again in our minds. The meaning of simple things, memorable frames of what we keep trying to build: strength, attachments, a print over whoever comes and goes our way. The gentle flow of jazzy music, the competitive self that pushes us forward. Intense. Whatever works after all. The transmission of the little things we know. Those we know for sure. The loves we left behind, the people they have become. A tiny bit through us, like a pen stroke that won't come off. Pending characters are looking back on their lives with nostalgia, sometimes regret, and sometimes a sense of accomplishment. What is left of all that when the end is near? Or simply when the time to move on is at hand? Pictures flashing by onboard an express train, a couple living their story through the glimpse of an eye. The frailty of instantaneity and its ceaseless echoing into the following years, like deafening drums in the distance. It's all about the traces that we leave behind, the bonds that link us to everyone around. The landmarks of a lifetime, pages being turned. Meeting again the love of our youth, hearing the crowd cheer in the arena. Memories and emotions surface from an old picture, a return to Italy or an rundown tennis court on the side of the road. They inevitably bring us back to the kid we used to be, the games we used to play, and the friends and connections we used to make so easily. Before it got serious, before it got definitive.Here the senses are put to the test, sensuality reigns over reason. Poets and writers and painters stretch along these short stories, and remind us of our beauty, of feeling things for real and what it takes to let them be, be they luminous or dark. Yes, it's about our humanity, the power of our subjective visions over the landscapes and the lives that fly by. Sensitive and beautiful.

Author: Stefan Orts
ISBN-10: 1705812678
ISBN-13: 9781705812679
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2019
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d