Early Short Tails

A collection of early works by Johns that cover a far reaching export of themes by the writer. From excerpts to his greater work to short interpersonal flash fictions this eBook has a broad sense of his style and early influences. This piece of work is an excellent appetizer and introduction to Johns’ work as a whole.EARLY SHORT TALES is a brief look into the worlds in which Johns tends to write in. WAKING UP is the first of three stories that has an origin in his larger work. A small piece of what will later become THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT in is A MEMORY OF TWILIGHT series, WAKING UP has the fallen hero Jacob Jacobi fighting his own alcoholic demons to become the man he once was or slip back into bitterness. THE RIDE has echoes of the writer’s life as a lost, single father considers his life while raising those children alone. And Finally THE BOX examines a man’s self-created, self-destructive loneliness as he mourns something gone. EARLY SHORT TALES is a vivid look into the styles and themes of the writer and offers a look at what is to come.