Once Upon A Time (Book of Short Stories)

Once upon a time the world was much sweeter than we knew everything was ours, how happy we were then, but somehow, once upon a time never comes again.

 

The lost art of story telling

Stories come from life, but life doesn’t come from stories.

From the editor’s room

Story: 1

Fairy Tales Can Come True

This is a story of  a ten year old boy and his goat that provides milk that the boy, barefoot and hungry, is peddling the goat’s milk around town to make some money to support his a fatherless family of four. The author has managed to tell the story as it was seeing, understood and misunderstood by the   young and innocent boy’s eyes. It is sad and at times funny.

It is a human drama that took place in Greece, in WWII during the German occupation of that country. The story, with many twists and turns that only Frank Georgalis can put down on paper, has a happy and surprising ending, that will warm up your heart to a thrilling point.

Story: 2

The Sitting Duck

“Do you believe in God, Erik,” asked the lady in the story.   “I believe in him, but he is like a cop, he is not around when  you need him,” responded the man.  The story started in bar-restaurant where the man sat at the bar with six beers and six whiskeys were lined up like soldiers waiting to march on.

“Boy, you look like you’re thirsty,” exclaimed a young woman of beauty and class, as she sat next to him without waiting for an invitation.  ”I am not thirsty,” responded the man. “I am really hungry.”

“Then you should eat some food,”  ”I am not hungry for food, I am hungry for excitement,” he replied

“What do you do for excitement may ask?”

“I make love,” he returned in a cut and dry manner.

“OH? Where is your next meal coming from?”

“Right here, sitting next to me.”

“Cowboy, do I look like a sitting duck, waiting for guys like you to be  plucked and cooked?”

Erik, realizing that the young woman was a secretary working in North Jersey and was visiting her parents during the weekend, he became very careful with hi s words and spoken thoughts. Having spent an hour at the bar, they walked out holding hands. The day turned out to be a day long love affair, but it ended in a tragedy.

story: 3

Attempted Robbery

Nick did not seek to conceal his share in the catastrophe of his family, but lamented with tears in his eyes that his wrong and treacherous  behavior had rendered it necessary that he should become a victim. Trying to get away from his past, he walked on for days in the rain and in the sun with a small bundle on his back. Without the timely vision of an Inn ahead of him he might have perished with hunger, hopelessness and fatigue.      Entering the bar-restaurant and finding a booth, he was challenged by two men, who at first claimed to be costumers, then turned themselves  into being law enforcement, the whole place became a chaos with Nick being in the middle of it. The story ended with the bad guys losing, the good guys winning and Nick was left out.

story: 4

Good Morning World

No man can find any pleasure in life unless he can live with himself. William Haggerty was such a man and he was my friend. He believed that all people are mercy less, unfeeling and reckless, but most can hide it, something he couldn’t and didn’t want to do. He said to me that the reason we are what we are is because we are children of nature. That’s why we call her Mother Nature. Nature has no mercy, no remorse and never repents. This the story of William Haggerty, who went against nature, by trying to be remorseful, merciful and to repent, took a sentimental journey to Geneva, Switzerland. It is true that no matter how light we travel, we always bring our old selves with us. William Haggerty fighting mother nature, he grew consciousness, something he was not accustomed of having. William, being a mercenary all through his life, fighting and killing other people’s enemies, became stranger to himself and his new life style.

story: 5

Guys and Dolls

What’s A Woman to Do

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This is a story of three women riding on the buss and talking about their significance in the society, but none understood what the others were saying.

Story :6

The Male Pride

His sense of male pride drove him to his death and the destruction of many families.