NO LONGER DRIFTING

A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES

    In everyone's life, whether gradual or forced by outside circumstances, change is inevitable.  The characters in these stories face crucial problems and lose all sense of direction.

    Change appears in the sinister form of an enemy in The Blameless.  In The Angel of Darkness, it surfaces as the deadly inner-struggle of a young divorcee contemplating suicide. 

     Whatever the case, each person sets out on some new, sometimes frightening, course--no longer drifting.

"Grief, a tragic flaw, failure to see the truth, immobilizes the characters in these stories that Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson tell with such heart and vividness.  Each presents an obstacle that makes progress impossible.

The challenge can be caused by loss, like in The Sea God or it can be simply a failure to change and grow, like in Adrift.  Whatever the problem, no easy answer exists and it looms threatening and impassable.  Each character is forced to take some action or face the results of avoidance: unhappiness, loss of inner peace, or even of life itself.

I immediately became a party to every struggle, many that every person sooner or later must face.  I found myself cheering the lead character on and  learning something in the process."

Audrey Sallman