Three Kinds of Fire

By John Peace

In this collection the author takes us on three journeys.
In one, a young man paddles off across the lake to escape the pain that's erupted in his family. But he discovers that the pain comes with him, and he must take an honest look at himself in order to deal with it.
In the second, we join a traveller as he takes a day trip up into the mountains of an exotic island. In his attempt to visit a friend, he is invited in by a poor man living in a tiny stone hut. Can the outsider overcome his prejudice to see the man for who he really is, and hear his story?
The final story is longer and imagines an English teacher in the Middle East who is challenged to live what he believes. A young woman who he's met only once has been kidnapped elsewhere in the country. Where will his daring take him?

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Peace
• Release date: Jun 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476465333

John Peace

Originally an engineering graduate from the UK keen to become an astronaut, somehow I ended up working in community development overseas for some years. Did I take a wrong turn? I don't think so. I have very few regrets. In between, I've worked in a soup factory, driven a taxi in London, served refreshments in Regents Park and a few other odd jobs. Last year I settled with my Canadian wife and our two sons in Ontario, where we enjoy the great outdoors, Finnish pancakes and blueberries, preferably all three at once. I confess to a lifelong fascination with science and science fiction, ever since watching Dr. Who and Blake's Seven on the BBC as a boy. I'm even old enough to have fuzzy memories of watching the Apollo 11 landing on TV. Whew! That's hard to believe. At the time of writing I'm working on a series of science fiction novels for pre-teens (8 to 12 year olds) called Beyond The Elder Stars. The first one is named 'The Calling'; it's published on Amazon Kindle and in print with CreateSpace. See my blogs for links to the book and for extra free content. I welcome correspondence. To contact me, spell out the following (the address isn't given complete to evade the dreaded spam spiders...) rj + peace (snail shell thing) 123mail (dot) org

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