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.