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 Review Collisions: Three Short Stories.

From The Magikaspar Nightmare: A ring-tailed lemur warns the troop. 

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Collisions: Three Short Stories by Stephanie M. Sellers will be published by Sept. 2023. 

Contact author at gaumedup@gmail.com.

--When the power of wonder collides with the supernatural, anything can happen.

In The Magikaspar Nightmare, Jackie Abbot suffers a ruptured appendix and dreams she is a ring-tailed lemur. At home, Jackie is bossed around by everyone, especially her brother, Harold. She feels like she has no power, and she is sick of it. Becoming a lemur is perfect because female lemurs are the leaders.

Her story begins as she completes the school year’s final assignment, a state essay project. She has been reading about Madagascar’s lemurs and Mississippi at the same time. Jackie and her classmates ran up grapefruit trees, into the redwoods, and to the baobab trees as hunters released the hounds. Brock suffers a broken leg. Prudence and Catrina disappear. But Neo, the autistic boy, sticks around to help, and it’s a good thing he does because Jackie is afraid of the dark.

In Twitterpated, Clay Kiva gives advice to his grandson, Lu, about how to find his wandering beagle, and they learn responsibility begins at home. Clay did not have the beagle neutered, and with love in the air, the dog was twitterpated. Chewy marries a poodle next door to Holly’s Nest Animal Rescue where Clay and Lu learn what happens when the human world and animal world collide.

Rescuing animals is a lot of work and takes a lot of money. But there is no governmental funding for animal rescues. Holly’s Nest Animal Rescue has a wide variety of North Carolina native species when Clay and Lu visit.

In the end, when Lu learns puppies are on the way, Lu answers the call of responsibility when he offers his meager savings to cover the pending results of his beagle’s “marriage.”

 

Holly’s Nest Animal Rescue is a nonprofit in Sanford, North Carolina. It began as an expression of love for Byron and Kim Wortham after they lost their teenage daughter in an automobile accident.

 

In When the Yellow Slugs Sing, a development threatens the famous endangered species in Wilderness Park and Jill Jumpy learns she’s followed her heart all over the country only to find she’d left it at home.

These mollusks are famous because they sing and glow and are delicious. A theme of compromise weaves the activism and reunited lovers together as a quasi-judicial hearing inspires critical thinking about decisions that impact species, even slugs.

Realistically, development is at record highs in America, 2023, and mollusks are disappearing at alarming rates. It is important for the public, the voters, to consider the symbiotic relationship of mollusks and humans because mollusks are the ecosystem’s health indicators. When the Yellow Slugs Sing shows how culture changes geography and limits species, and that the art of compromise may be the answer for all species.