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Title: The Games You Cannot Win
Subtitle: A Collection of Short Stories
Author: M. K. Williams
Narrator: Lisa Negron
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-20-17
Publisher: Mary K. Williams
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Roll the dice, pick a card, tell a lie, hide the truth. Whatever the move, it's all just part of the game. Follow the lives of four very different characters who are all trapped in an insidious game. Each story delves into the intricate web of misaligned motives and obscured half-truths.
"In This Business"
A career hangs in the balance between a wicked deal with a publishing company and a daughter's loyalty to her mother. As she works furiously to meet her deadline, she debates the impending betrayal: her ambition, or her beloved mother.
"The Joker"
In the middle of his quarter-life crisis, Randolf, a young reporter, stumbles upon a political scandal so dark and treacherous that it threatens the very fabric of our democracy. Will he reveal the truth before it is too late, or will the innate powers of human nature ruin his story before it is even printed?
"Dolly"
Katherine Hertzfeld-Doll has just begun her term as a Supreme Court Justice. Before she can even get her bearings, she is thrown into a scandal that threatens to compromise her life's work and end her career. Will she cave under the pressure, or will she use her political power to hide the truth?
"Escaping Avila Chase"
Agent Trevor Hobbertson is about to crack the most important case of his career with the FBI. As he pursues the criminal, he is also taunted by vivid memories of his ex-girlfriend. Is that nagging feeling that he is being taunted founded, or is there an evil mastermind lurking behind the scenes and planning his demise?
Members Reviews:
Great collection of stories
These stories were all super interesting and thoughtfully written. They were all connected through a similar love of writing. I found myself learning something from each story. Very well written!
A very varied menu
The Games You Cannot Win explores what happens when alternative facts start leading a life on their own, when white lies lose their innocence, when you start to believe your own excuses...
The four not-so-short short stories each have their own unique flavor, tone and pace, from the rather detached rendering of the slow-motion mother-daughter train-wreck of In this Business, to Trevorâs up close and personal paranoia in Escaping Avila Chase.
The political scandal in The Joker almost had me wondering if it reflected something we have yet to find out about the last US elections.
While the writing is really good, it does tend to lose itself in peripheral details or wander off into the doldrums here and there, but perhaps that is also part of its charm.
Enjoyable short stories
This was an enjoyable read! I don't usually read books of short stories, but this wasn't technically short stories. The first story was short, and the other 3 were mini-novellas, for lack of a better word.
I thought the first story was cute and I thought the ending was really sweet. The two middle stories dragged a little bit for me, but the last one, "Escaping Avila Chase," was really enjoyable. This one is about an FBI agent who becomes obsessed with his former girlfriend's habit of writing her ex love interests into her books.