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It started with a writing challenge - 1,000 words based on a random image. 18 authors took on the task all in aid of PKDcharity.org.uk and here are the results!
From demons to lost loves, from unsolved mysteries to spooky supernatural happenings read what came out of the imaginations of Jaclyn Ann Lee, Lila L. Pinord, Rob Shepherd, Andy Lockwood, L.H. Davis, James Bryant, Anthony V. Pugliese, Kevin S. Hall, Rick Eddy, Max E. Stone, Dave J. Suscheck Jr., Vered Ehsani, J. Cornell Michel, Michele Jones, Lizzie Wachter, Linda Jenkinson, Kally Jo Surbeck and Samie Sands.
Never will you find such an eclectic collection of stories in one book, but which such a varying collection of writers, what did you expect? All the pictures that inspired these stories can be found at samiesands.com/pictures. Buying this book will not only entertain and amuse you, it will support a hard working charity and might even lead you to discover your new favourite author!
A Picture is Worth 1 000 Words edition by Samie Sands Rick Eddy Max Stone Dave Suscheck Jr Vered Ehsani J Michele Michele Jones Lizzie Wachter Linda Jenkinson Kally Surbeck Literature Fiction eBooks
A book with a challenge: within a few days writers had to look at an image, write a story based on their muse (the photo), edit, and submit their writings to the publisher. The book was written for charity, raising funds for Polycystic Kidney Disease in the UK (pkdcharity.org.uk).The prompt for the writers created an interesting enough motive to convince a reader to make the purchase: looking at picture and writing a story. Who doesn’t love that idea? There’s a link in the introduction of the novel to the photos.
All of the pictures were imaginative. Particularly, image #12 stuck out. However, everyone will have his or her own opinion of which image was the best. The reader will have to buy the book for the link to the photos. It’s inexpensive.
The book was very short, too. An hour read, maybe two. The tales were unique and cool in their own ways. It’s good to note that the writers had short submission windows. So reading the book should be for enjoyment rather than pointing out minor mistakes.
The reader will be pulled into editor Jaclyn Ann Lee’s tale, Waiting For Forever, first. As a side note, Lee chatted with me on Facebook about the book so I could gain a little extra info about it. Hence why I know all of those tidbits above. Her first story is about an old war vet who came back to his hometown and waited for his lady, Rose, to return to him. It’s difficult to see Rose’s side, however. The narrator, James, only gave his details. How he saw the world. James mentioned how much he loved Rose, but not how much she loved him.
Even when the narrator got into their letters, it’s difficult to tell Rose’s position. Did she love him at all, or was James delusional? Was there even a romance? It’s difficult to tell. Yet, after the read, one might attempt to answer the questions on his or her own, and nothing’s wrong with leaving someone thinking about what was read. In fact, that’s a plus.
The story’s very engaging. The reader will root for the narrator. Lee did a wonderful job in creating a story from a photo. And upon looking at the picture of a rusted carnival ride, it’s evident where she got her inspiration of a sad man who was left and forgotten. Waiting For Forever was worth a look.
A photo of a piano and a tree inspired the second story, Grandpa’s Ghost, by Lila L. Pinord. This one should be a fun one and easily relatable. A youngster took time off for the summer to visit her widowed grandmother. There’s great dialogue and interesting narrative, especially the nicknaming of the piano tree.
One issue was the believability. Not of the ghost part, rather, of the fact that the narrator, who was a college student at this point in the story, didn’t know how her grandfather died or for that matter about the mysterious piano tree, which had been there for a long time. So the reader was supposed to think that the main character never visited her grandmother until then? It’s a great short piece still.
The next two stories were of the suspense genre. Country Life, by Rob Shepherd had a fantastic narrative with an unexpected twist. There’s a little redundancy, but that’s easily looked past being that this one was well told. Lake Effect by Andy Lockwood had some good metaphoric usage within—a page-turner, too.
Here’s a modern story about nature versus man or maybe it wasn’t nature—maybe there was something more maniacal hidden in the snow? The major plus with the story was how Lockwood showed a knack for narrative.
Sole Warning by L.H. Davis had an awesome first-person narrative. The protagonist in this one could easily carry a large science fiction saga. There’s an issue with the character though. Believability. He or she was sitting under the stars in front of a fire with a shotgun. As expected from the narrative, an intelligent extraterrestrial appeared.
The protagonist and alien talked about dangers ahead. Here’s where the story got confusing. The protagonist, who moments ago came off as a country bumpkin and continued to speak like one, suddenly knew information that didn’t make sense, such as if the government had the ability to take down an asteroid.
If a reader were to know more about the protagonist and how she or he was both the slack-jawed yokel type and brainy, it would create a more compelling story to read. The short itself was worth a look and fun.
Hidden Underneath by James Bryant delivered a solid first sentence that should get any fan of mysteries to keep reading. Despite that tidbit, it’s hard to recommend this story, because in the end nothing actually happened. Hidden Underneath came off more as an introduction to a longer story, which would probably be a really good one. Alone, this seemed incomplete, but perhaps another reader would enjoy the short.
In Car-Nage, by Anthony V. Pugliese, the author made a great effort to describe a beaten up Chevy Corvair. There’s well-crafted imagery in this short, too, especially of the car. The ending was something right out of the pages of a noir. A must read for fans of the genre.
There was only one possible story to come from the photo prompt for The Screeching Spectre Of Ward 13 by Kevin S. Hall, which was that of an abandoned mental asylum. Hall delivered a good ole creepy short story.
Rick Eddy’s Sparkling Saviour had a slow start, possibly due to too much focus on the photo prompt and less on other aspects to keep a reader interested, but the story picked up and turned out to be interesting.
It seemed like the main character’s name changed from Jennifer to Melissa in Run Down by Max E. Stone, just for a moment. Then it was clear that the point of view shifted. There’s something to be said for a story that starts off with the action. This one had that quality and was a fast, cool ride—could also make for a longer story.
The Dark Depths by Dave J. Suscheck, Jr. left a lot of questions that were due to answers the author should have given the reader somehow—whether through showing or even outright telling. For instance, the protagonist knew the crew wanted to kill her, the Captain gave her a trump card, and she refused it outright. Why?
There’s mysterious and then there’s too mysterious due to lack of information. The book was written for charity, so it’s hard to give the writer such a hard time. The tale needed work though. The pro over the cons was that Suscheck did a great job of telling his story. It was yet another page-turner in the book and would have made an entertaining novel given that that element might have added possible details needed to enhance the overall story.
Vered Ehsani, who wrote The House of Stone, probably had the best photo prompt. This lovely mansion or castle appeared to be built into and colored the same way as a mountain—surrounded by water. Ehsani used the prompt oh so well. The voice of the narrator was funny. This was yet another enjoyable short piece.
The Lonely Bicycle by J. Cornell Michel was hilarious and tear-jerkingly sad at the same time. Treasures of the Deep by Michele Jones had a way about it that carried the reader. Reading Hilltop Menagerie by Jaclyn Ann Lee will most likely be the first time anyone ever laughs about a pencil in such a way. Lee displayed quite a witty imagination. This short could have been an introduction to a well-written book, and held its own as a short piece.
Our Beautiful Canvas by Lizzie Wachter made A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words worth way more than what it sold for. A touching love story with such vivid imagery! People frown at second person narrative, but Wachter utilized the method like a boss, and she’s just sixteen!
In Death at the Prom by Linda Jenkinson, there were way too many subplots going on at once and too many characters to keep up with. The short did have some good qualities. It was seemingly written only for young adults though, which was okay. Good Boy by Kally Jo Surbeck had another interesting point of view. A reader might like the story just for the original prospective and creepiness. Surbeck’s also an award-winning, best-selling author of several genres.
Samie Sands wrote the last story in the novel, Ghost Hunter. It’s the cutest possible story to end such an anthology with so many different dynamics. Together, these were like something out of The Dark Tales series. If someone likes mystery, horror, suspense, noir, tragedy, or just a good random short than this would be the book for them.
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A Picture is Worth 1 000 Words edition by Samie Sands Rick Eddy Max Stone Dave Suscheck Jr Vered Ehsani J Michele Michele Jones Lizzie Wachter Linda Jenkinson Kally Surbeck Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Absolutely loved it! Great stories and some of the pics, disturbing. Just enough to fuel my imagination to be involved in this work! Well put together! Fantastic job, Samie Sands!
Wonderful book! There was some good humor, some fantastic horror, and some sad stories. A nice variety of well-written stories. I was introduced to some new authors that I hope to read more of in the future.
While I am a contributing author in this anthology, my congratulations go out to the other authors on such successful and stunning writing for this compilation. Writing is a challenge on its own, but to be given a single image and asked to write a story inspired by it puts the challenge on another level completely. I was nothing but impressed by these stories, and both surprised and delighted by the results. If ever you wanted to peek into the mind of an author, this is your keyhole.
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words by Samie Sands and other talented authors. It had a wide scope of stories and various styles of writing. Very interesting. My favorite from this book was Hilltop Menagerie. The book was made to go to charity and the authors did not slack up on their writing at all. Top notch for this book. Great job. I was given this book for a honest review.
So fun to see what the contributing authors described.
I like all the stories in this anthology, not just mine!
Samie Sands knows hoe to put together great stories!
Authors starting writing with just a picture and then had to submit a 1,000 page short story related to that picture. I enjoyed reading all these stories, especially after I went to the website to see what picture each one had to work with. Well done and a great cause too!
A book with a challenge within a few days writers had to look at an image, write a story based on their muse (the photo), edit, and submit their writings to the publisher. The book was written for charity, raising funds for Polycystic Kidney Disease in the UK (pkdcharity.org.uk).
The prompt for the writers created an interesting enough motive to convince a reader to make the purchase looking at picture and writing a story. Who doesn’t love that idea? There’s a link in the introduction of the novel to the photos.
All of the pictures were imaginative. Particularly, image #12 stuck out. However, everyone will have his or her own opinion of which image was the best. The reader will have to buy the book for the link to the photos. It’s inexpensive.
The book was very short, too. An hour read, maybe two. The tales were unique and cool in their own ways. It’s good to note that the writers had short submission windows. So reading the book should be for enjoyment rather than pointing out minor mistakes.
The reader will be pulled into editor Jaclyn Ann Lee’s tale, Waiting For Forever, first. As a side note, Lee chatted with me on Facebook about the book so I could gain a little extra info about it. Hence why I know all of those tidbits above. Her first story is about an old war vet who came back to his hometown and waited for his lady, Rose, to return to him. It’s difficult to see Rose’s side, however. The narrator, James, only gave his details. How he saw the world. James mentioned how much he loved Rose, but not how much she loved him.
Even when the narrator got into their letters, it’s difficult to tell Rose’s position. Did she love him at all, or was James delusional? Was there even a romance? It’s difficult to tell. Yet, after the read, one might attempt to answer the questions on his or her own, and nothing’s wrong with leaving someone thinking about what was read. In fact, that’s a plus.
The story’s very engaging. The reader will root for the narrator. Lee did a wonderful job in creating a story from a photo. And upon looking at the picture of a rusted carnival ride, it’s evident where she got her inspiration of a sad man who was left and forgotten. Waiting For Forever was worth a look.
A photo of a piano and a tree inspired the second story, Grandpa’s Ghost, by Lila L. Pinord. This one should be a fun one and easily relatable. A youngster took time off for the summer to visit her widowed grandmother. There’s great dialogue and interesting narrative, especially the nicknaming of the piano tree.
One issue was the believability. Not of the ghost part, rather, of the fact that the narrator, who was a college student at this point in the story, didn’t know how her grandfather died or for that matter about the mysterious piano tree, which had been there for a long time. So the reader was supposed to think that the main character never visited her grandmother until then? It’s a great short piece still.
The next two stories were of the suspense genre. Country Life, by Rob Shepherd had a fantastic narrative with an unexpected twist. There’s a little redundancy, but that’s easily looked past being that this one was well told. Lake Effect by Andy Lockwood had some good metaphoric usage within—a page-turner, too.
Here’s a modern story about nature versus man or maybe it wasn’t nature—maybe there was something more maniacal hidden in the snow? The major plus with the story was how Lockwood showed a knack for narrative.
Sole Warning by L.H. Davis had an awesome first-person narrative. The protagonist in this one could easily carry a large science fiction saga. There’s an issue with the character though. Believability. He or she was sitting under the stars in front of a fire with a shotgun. As expected from the narrative, an intelligent extraterrestrial appeared.
The protagonist and alien talked about dangers ahead. Here’s where the story got confusing. The protagonist, who moments ago came off as a country bumpkin and continued to speak like one, suddenly knew information that didn’t make sense, such as if the government had the ability to take down an asteroid.
If a reader were to know more about the protagonist and how she or he was both the slack-jawed yokel type and brainy, it would create a more compelling story to read. The short itself was worth a look and fun.
Hidden Underneath by James Bryant delivered a solid first sentence that should get any fan of mysteries to keep reading. Despite that tidbit, it’s hard to recommend this story, because in the end nothing actually happened. Hidden Underneath came off more as an introduction to a longer story, which would probably be a really good one. Alone, this seemed incomplete, but perhaps another reader would enjoy the short.
In Car-Nage, by Anthony V. Pugliese, the author made a great effort to describe a beaten up Chevy Corvair. There’s well-crafted imagery in this short, too, especially of the car. The ending was something right out of the pages of a noir. A must read for fans of the genre.
There was only one possible story to come from the photo prompt for The Screeching Spectre Of Ward 13 by Kevin S. Hall, which was that of an abandoned mental asylum. Hall delivered a good ole creepy short story.
Rick Eddy’s Sparkling Saviour had a slow start, possibly due to too much focus on the photo prompt and less on other aspects to keep a reader interested, but the story picked up and turned out to be interesting.
It seemed like the main character’s name changed from Jennifer to Melissa in Run Down by Max E. Stone, just for a moment. Then it was clear that the point of view shifted. There’s something to be said for a story that starts off with the action. This one had that quality and was a fast, cool ride—could also make for a longer story.
The Dark Depths by Dave J. Suscheck, Jr. left a lot of questions that were due to answers the author should have given the reader somehow—whether through showing or even outright telling. For instance, the protagonist knew the crew wanted to kill her, the Captain gave her a trump card, and she refused it outright. Why?
There’s mysterious and then there’s too mysterious due to lack of information. The book was written for charity, so it’s hard to give the writer such a hard time. The tale needed work though. The pro over the cons was that Suscheck did a great job of telling his story. It was yet another page-turner in the book and would have made an entertaining novel given that that element might have added possible details needed to enhance the overall story.
Vered Ehsani, who wrote The House of Stone, probably had the best photo prompt. This lovely mansion or castle appeared to be built into and colored the same way as a mountain—surrounded by water. Ehsani used the prompt oh so well. The voice of the narrator was funny. This was yet another enjoyable short piece.
The Lonely Bicycle by J. Cornell Michel was hilarious and tear-jerkingly sad at the same time. Treasures of the Deep by Michele Jones had a way about it that carried the reader. Reading Hilltop Menagerie by Jaclyn Ann Lee will most likely be the first time anyone ever laughs about a pencil in such a way. Lee displayed quite a witty imagination. This short could have been an introduction to a well-written book, and held its own as a short piece.
Our Beautiful Canvas by Lizzie Wachter made A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words worth way more than what it sold for. A touching love story with such vivid imagery! People frown at second person narrative, but Wachter utilized the method like a boss, and she’s just sixteen!
In Death at the Prom by Linda Jenkinson, there were way too many subplots going on at once and too many characters to keep up with. The short did have some good qualities. It was seemingly written only for young adults though, which was okay. Good Boy by Kally Jo Surbeck had another interesting point of view. A reader might like the story just for the original prospective and creepiness. Surbeck’s also an award-winning, best-selling author of several genres.
Samie Sands wrote the last story in the novel, Ghost Hunter. It’s the cutest possible story to end such an anthology with so many different dynamics. Together, these were like something out of The Dark Tales series. If someone likes mystery, horror, suspense, noir, tragedy, or just a good random short than this would be the book for them.
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