Reverieing

By Ted Gross

"Reverieing" is a story of the slow descent into depression, loneliness and sorrow by one man who has been destined by luck or fate to experience the purgatory of existence. From the lap of luxury into the mundane, with sorrow upon sorrow heaped upon him, war and death always at his heels, Aaron slowly descends into Dante's hell, with ever-increasing swiftness. This story is not for the light-hearted and will hit you with a sledgehammer of emotions. I do hope you enjoy it but beware it will remain with you long after you have read it.

"Reverieing" is part of the short story collection "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends". The "One Story @ A Time Series" introduces various short stories by Ted William Gross, as separate editions in electronic E-Book format. Each electronic version contains one (1) short story, taken from the short story collections of Ted William Gross. If you wish to read the entire collection, either in print or in electronic format, look up "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" in which "Reverieing" is one of the stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ted Gross
• Release date: Mar 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476123592

Ted Gross

Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.

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Reverieing

One Story @ A Time Series

Ted William Gross

COH Publishing

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The "One Story @ A Time Series" introduces various short stories by Ted William Gross, as separate editions in electronic E-Book format. Each electronic version contains one (1) short story, taken from the short story collections of Ted William Gross.

If you wish to read the entire collection, either in print or in electronic format, look up "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" in which this is one of the stories. If you wish to pick specific stories, just look for the One Story @ A Time Series connected to Ted Gross or Ted William Gross.

Reverieing

Language thou art too narrow, and too weak

To ease us now; great sorrow cannot speak;

If we could sigh out accents, and weep words,

Grief wears, and lessens, that tears breath affords.

John Donne - Elegies

I

It was actually the sign on the bus that sent Aaron’s mind into one of its familiar spins. He was holding the steering wheel at the red light, lightly tapping a finger in tune with Janis Joplin’s Summertime playing on the car CD, and that bus just had to go by his vision.

Such is karma, he thought to himself. "Karma. Fate. Bad luck.