Allan Krokkos arrives in a remote insular town in southern Greece.He encountres a group of jaded ex pats at odds with the locals who in turn are at odds with themselves.The popular culture of early1990s Greece sets the scene as the lives of every day rural folk and exraordinary expats interweave with Greek politics , pop music , films from the golden age of greek cinema,orthodox rituals and holy days in this humourous,soulsearching novel about culture clashes,searching,acceptance and rejection
A group of jaded ex pats at odds with themselves clash with locals at odds with each other in a remote insular greek town. The towns dramas,dilemmas and secrets slowly unfold as daily life interweaves with politics, orthodox ritual and popular culture in the Greece of the early nineteen nineties
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
Pieces of Eight is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas/short stories. Themes represented in the work are science fiction, paranormal, psychological drama, humor, murder/revenge and astrological fulfillment. Pieces of Eight is the com