"Straight Up" & "Spice Up" by Rachel A. Frias
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Category:
Literary Fiction
Publisher: Authorhouse
Type: Fiction
Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781456723903
This superb and entertaining collection of short, fictional stories disguises relevant issues to scientists, engineers, technicians, teachers and college students.
Specifics:
These themes come through reflecting:
A mechanic’s cold world, the run down state of some school buildings, how financial investments rise, the fiction of replaying living organisms, uneasiness and terror due to skepticism, the value of frivolous antiques and candy, identity theft, fitting new furniture in old buildings, in addition some other themes in “Straight Up” by Rachel Frias are the dangers of trespassing, neighborhood quality, military giving away their lives, reaching for more than one can achieve, unexpected accidents and also family intrusion.
“Straight Up” uses themes that can be summarized into:
Feelings, socioeconomic status, science fiction, value of antiques and candy, id theft, overweight, casual love at first sight, military betrayal, passionate accidents, family and queers.
Proof:
By including a bit of reality and dressing these naked themes with fictional garments, the author of “Straight Up”, Rachel Frias, brings fiction to life in narrative conversation. Each of the 24 stories in Straight Up is original and contains at least one element of surprise as one reads the daring writer’s composition -take for instance “Wisk Away” -where an overweight and lesbian Josephina pulls out a cell phone and surrenders John as a drunken driver because of her vengeful personality.
Originality:
To illustrate further the originality of these twenty four short stories in “Straight Up” by Rachel Frias check that such a modern topic as stem cells is approached by Helena, and she as a character, takes advantage of this procedure to have a vertebral disk regenerated.
Excerpt
Professor Taylore approved and remarked, “Julia, you have quite a backstabbing personality, and you have mastered the knifing technique.” With disapproving tone in his voice, he added, “however, your long hair is in the way, and now there are blond hairs on his face. I can see two shimmering slightly on Dr. Rosenthal’s body.”
“Oh!” She covered her mouth with her whole hand. “I am so sorry, Professor Taylore.” She took some time as she dragged doctor Rosenthal’s body into the closet without the professor’s help.
“Just don’t let it happen again, Julia.”
She closed the closet door with difficulty, trying to keep the two bodies from falling out.
“To lower the bodies we must use the elevator in lab 102. The elevator reaches the lower loading dock,” ordered Professor Taylore. “I think the elevator could handle the weight of two dead bodies just fine. I have made it hauled high-pressure tanks before,” he added.
“Yes the weight limit is four people, I think. The sticker says so, if I remember correctly,” verified Julia. “In one single freight run we could lower them onto the basement’s loading dock where your jeep is parked.
Into my jeep? Professor Taylore asked himself. Where else? he reasoned and went along with her suggestion, incriminating himself easily.
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