Book One – Broken Dreams: My Complete Collection of SHORT STORIES

This is the first of six books which contain the complete collection of short stories by the late Polly Blim. Polly was not a writer, but she had a talent for coming up with story ideas that I believe the reader would find interesting. Her stories touch upon nearly every genre imaginable with more than a hint of LGBTQ+ relationships and entanglements. Some are darker than others in dealing with love, hate, jealousy, revenge, and forbidden love in a web of mystery cast before a backdrop that leans towards horror and dark erotica. These stories were possibly destined to remain on a dusty shelf or be hidden away and eventually destroyed, so I hope you find them worthy of my saving and publishing so that Polly Blim’s thoughts and imagination might be shared and hopefully appreciated. As a former friend, I find it difficult to judge them in the real world, but I have found them entertaining, with many surprising twists hidden beneath their dark undertow. Admittedly, some of the stories are as dark as they are erotic, which she had tried to tame, but the world sometimes is not a very nice place in which these darker stories reflect Polly’s feelings, which simply create a backdrop for stories which I think hold their own and hope that you enjoy? This first book in a series entitled ‘Broken Dreams’ deals with the dilemma of a female detective seeking the truth but finding herself haunted by both past and present; Detective Samantha Niela discovers a clue regarding an unsolved case, that of a missing girl. But before she is answered, Sam must endure a series of strange tales, one of which relates to a girl’s Vietnam wartime ordeal, whilst another relates to Sam’s police partner’s brother incarcerated in an asylum. There is a tale about a stretch of water that holds more than a guilty secret, whilst a strange book seems to hold the secret of life and death. Another relates to a bullied girl named Chiayo, who is trapped between love and revenge, whilst a pianist awaiting release from one contract is unaware that another contract is being drawn up, with a strange tale regarding a vampire named Vaanika. —- ISBN: 9798322316596