The Gentleman Lion and Other Stories -- by Martin Jones

The Gentleman Lion and Other Stories -- by Martin Jones

The Gentleman Lion and Other Stories -- by Martin Jones

This collection of eleven short stories by Martin Jones, is a delight to read. The stories are literary, with hints of genre in some of them. Each story is different from the others and cover ground from chance Meeting the Payzaks on a flight to Vegas with a stop off Waiting for the Assassins to the last and title story of facing your mortality and destiny.

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The Gentleman Lion and Other Stories -- by Martin Jones

 Fiction / Literary Short Stories

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First Edition: February 25, 2022

ISBN: 978-81-8253-872-6

$15.00

148 pages

5 Stars

This collection of eleven short stories by Martin Jones, is a delight to read. The stories are literary, with hints of genre in some of them. Each story is different from the others and cover ground from chance Meeting the Payzaks on a flight to Vegas with a stop off Waiting for the Assassins to the last and title story of facing your mortality and destiny.

I thoroughly enjoyed each of these stories. I loved Don’t I know You from Somewhere? What fun; makes me want to try it myself. And the realization at the end of On the Ottawa Express was choice and I chuckled out loud, having almost but not quite figuring it out. 

Poor Henry in The Music Solarium. He had lived in his own world, his own reality for so long, he didn’t understand when he was ignored by his wife and her friends, and his music collection began disappearing. Each story in this anthology gives us a perfect ending. 

The Gentleman Lion is both the title story and the last story. It is also the longest story with more character and story development. A fitting story on which to close the book.  I enjoyed each one. My only complaint is the book ended too soon. I’d like to have a few more stories. Perhaps another book. Are you listening, Mr. Jones?

 

Lenora Rain-Lee Good recently returned to her beloved Pacific Northwest from Albuquerque, New Mexico to dance in the rain and write. Part Native American (Catawba) she is fascinated with history, and often incorporates historical events in her writing. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Quill & Parchment and Five Willows Literary Review, both online literary magazines. Washington 129, anthology of Washington State Poetry, chosen by Tod Marshall, the Washington State Poet Laureate, 2016-2018 and her collection, Blood on the Ground: Elegies for Waiilatpu published by Redbat Press. She has been an Author-Editor in the aerospace industry, and an Instructor in the WAC. Besides writing and selling her poetry, she has sold novels, radio plays, photographs, and even a quilt. However, she's joking about dancing in the rain. One, she doesn't dance, and two, she lives in the desert part of Washington.