The house rules aren’t so bad, Erick discovers. Soon he is spending evenings on an Internet gaming application that his uncle also routinely plays with online friends. One of Andrew’s friends, whom he has never met but chats with online, is Stacy, a college student in Texas. Erick and Stacy “meet” and begin a texting/chatting relationship that develops over the months into what they believe must be love, yet neither one can understand how love could happen without actually meeting. Erick asks to visit Stacy, she says no. Frustrated, Erick writes about their crazy on-line love in a book that becomes a hot seller. A book-signing tour leads him to Stacy’s college town…but the odds of finally meeting are not in his favor.
If No One Speaks
$14.89The 26 stories in Sam Szanto’s debut collection, ‘If No One Speaks’, centre around the ideas of voicelessness and dispossession.
The majority of the stories feature displaced or alienated female protagonists. There are sub-themes of love, loss, incarceration, the forbidden and female solidarity. The protagonists are a variety of ages in diverse situations, in settings spanning the globe, including: a Russian prison, a Bangladeshi brothel, a Thai jail, a Madrid market and the English Lake District.
