Motley Tales: Collection 1

MOTLEY TALES: COLLECTION 1.
Six gripping short works aimed at readers short on time, but big on sinking their teeth into a good story... serves up a twisted concoction of greed, desperation, fear and love in the lives of people in tough situations making tougher choices.

Meet off-world ice climbers who wrestle between granting an ugly mercy or saving their own lives and a cursed aristocrat whose chance at freedom begets consequences intolerable to his station.

See what happens to a sweet sixteen alternative-prom goer whose much anticipated time-of-her-life turns into the scare-of-her-life, and a 22nd century female boxer forced to represent her tribe in ruthless matches, but desperate to cling to her humanity.

Unnerved by an enigmatic Mr. Right, follow a single woman who tries to throw him back, and witness the pain of an abandoned Black girl struggling with the specter of being alone in 1952.