The Chosen (Love In A Hopeless Place - Urban Short Story Collection) [Kindle Edition]

Emma Calin (Author)

Book Description

A #1 Kindle Best Seller in Short Stories. 

  

The second in Emma Calin's LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE Urban Short Story Collection.

  

A woman, a man, a van and a plan.  What do painting and decorating, Thai brides, 

self-help manuals and pay-day loans have in common? J.A. knows the answer.  

Follow his his quest for love and happiness in The Chosen.

When the luck runs out; the lucky walk away. A short story set in the extremis of everyday. 

  
5 Star Reviews:

• 'An Absolute Gem' - Sheryl S. Browne
• ''This story blew me away' - Frederick Brooke
• 'Why love drives you crazy' - R Stephen Woodfin
• 'Delightfully quirky' - Scribbler
• 'A tale with a moral' - Linn B Halton

Click on the LOOK INSIDE! button above to read an excerpt.

Product Details

• File Size: 192 KB
• Print Length: 15 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Gallo-Romano Media; 1 edition (July 18, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008MVXQ32
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,222 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This Story Blew Me Away July 20, 2012

By Brooke Frederick

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Short Stories are like snacks between the meals of full-length novel-feasts. You'll finish the new short story by Emma Calin, The Chosen, in a scant fifteen minutes. But you'll want to read it again for the dialogue, and then maybe once more for the eerie setting.

Two low-lifes hatch plans for making it big, starting with a humdrum paint job and devolving into an insurance scheme. There's a lady in the story, too, to coin a phrase.

But the star of this story is the amazing dialogue, right out of a Harold Pinter stage-play.

"And what about cash right now -- we're skint mate."

"Aye -- I've already thought of that. It's what Henry B. Grabitt calls a contingency. I'll call that Black Fin pay day loan company that's on the tele. Then I'll call them lawyers at Compensation Nation. They get you the money you fully deserve. Once everyone knows that I'm expecting a big payout they'll be begging to lend me cash. It's called having a business mind my friend. It's about grasping the moment."

This story whips itself into a kaleidescope of colorful images and characters and expressions, each one sharper than the last, going off like firecrackers. Go ahead, have a little snack called The Chosen. It will blow you away.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Short Story October 25, 2012

By Crystal Cierlak

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

"The Chosen" has a kind of surprise ending that I think I don't quite get. I've read it a few times. I understand what happened. I understand what the characters did to get to where they are at the end. And yet I still feel like I'm missing something. Calin has created a character in J.A., and his folly is at first charming, but eventually tiring, much as anyone would find such a person in real life. I can't help but wonder if his fate was accidental, or if he had planned it all along. There's just something about the punchline of this story that I feel like I'm missing, though I don't feel that is the fault of the author. Still, an interesting read and one that has kept me questioning the ending, whether the author intended it that way or not.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Why love drives you crazy July 19, 2012

By R. Stephen Woodfin

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

The Chosen is the second of Emma Calin's short stories I have read. Both are jewels that come at life from the underside of the leaf. They are stories of ordinary, common people who hold to their dreams and reach for things beyond their grasp.
The Chosen is a story about unquenchable hope, ill-founded on a love sure to go bad. It is about hare-brained schemes, not thought-through, sure to fail.
The first sentence sums it up: "Of course, there had to be a woman in the story."
Of course.
I also enjoyed Oscar Sparrow's narration of the free audio version of the story available to purchasers of the book.
Highly recommended.

More About the Author

Emma Calin was born in London in 1962. She currently lives in France and the UK.

She has been writing since childhood and has won numerous local, national and international prizes for poetry and short stories.

"LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE URBAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION" - the complete 'boxed set' of 5 novelettes and short stories by Emma Calin, including previously unpublished bonus story ANGELA. Available in July 2013 in print, digital e-book and audiobook formats.

"LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE" is coming out in Kindle format in June 2013. It is a novelette which is the final book in Emma Calin's Urban Short Story Collection.

"ESCAPE TO LOVE" is a novelette set in an urban landscape, the third in Emma's LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE Urban Short Story Collection. A mother and her autistic daughter are trying to start a new life. They have escaped an abusive relationship only to now find themselves tangled in further drama and controversy. Can she trust her instincts and make the right choices for her child? Their future depends on it. Available in e-book format for Kindle and Kindle Reader Apps.

"KNOCKOUT! A Passionate Police Romance" is a love story set against a backdrop of international gambling corruption and deception. Interpol cop Anna Leyton finds herself torn between love and duty when her professional and private life intersects. 2 video teasers for this book are available in the right hand column of this author page, below the blog. This book is now available in both paperback and Kindle formats.

"SUB-PRIME" is a prize-winning hard hitting short story about courage, exploitation and love. It is a raw and brutal exposé of life at the bottom in the aftermath of recession. Available in e-book formats for Kindle and Kindle Reader Apps. This is the first in Emma Calin's Short Story Collection - LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE.

"THE CHOSEN" - The second in the LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE Short Story Collection - is a short story set in modern times where working people struggle to keep their dreams alive. A world where the promise of love motivates desperate measures. Available in e-book format for Kindle and Kindle Reader Apps.

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