Shifting Horizons By Sheena Billett

 

Shifting Horizons By Sheena Billett 🌅
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Various
This book is a collection of 35 short stories depicting transitions within people's lives & how they choose to or are forced to deal with those transitions & how life can throw us curveballs when we least expect it! It is also about the effect that those curveballs can have on us, the choices we make plus how a sizemic change in our lives can alter how we relate to & treat those around us. Some stories were thought provoking, others emotional, but all of them with the underlying tone of evolution within life, chance meetings & how we deal with consequences. Also, making the best of situations by expression, taking chances & using what gift, however unfortunate it can seem at the time, to the best of your ability & maybe something good will come from it.
Some of my favourite stories are:
The Fleeting Grandad 👴
Pass The Chips 🍟
A Growing Community 🌳
Christmas Ice ☃️
Teddy Bear Chaos 🧸
I am at heart a lover of novels rather than short stories. I like something that I can get lost in for days, & a few of the more lengthy stories did this for me. There are enough of the right ingredients in each story to make the reader curious about how the characters & the storyline could be developed, except for maybe the much shorter scenario based tales such as 'Teddy Bear chaos', the ending of which is hilarious. I definitely think that the subsequent creation of some novels relating to these stories should be considered.
May be an image of book and text that says 'taken Stories HOHIZ6NS and journeys HORIZONS Flives lived SHEENA BILLETT'
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