"Crucifixion and Other Fictions", a podiobook

by Mina Samuels
(Audiobook downloaded from podiobooks.com)

Yet unpublished collection of 13 short stories, read by the author. Skillfully woven tales well worth listening to. I hope they'll be published soon. Three of the stories are the 9-11 stories, but although the terrorists' attack on New York features as a life changing event for the main characters, it is not the focal point of the stories. Rather, they show snippets of ordinary life altered by those extraordinary circumstances.

Remaining ten stories are moments in lives of ordinary Americans, easy to identify with and well crafted. The common theme would be children, but only loosely, or maybe parenthood. In some stories children are yet unborn, in others they are only briefly mentioned adults, or a constantly crying newborn. The collection leaves the impression that the author was dealing with some children-related issues, whether it is pregnancy or some other development, it reflected in these stories.