The Memoir Man: And Others In Public Places by Frances Webb

MIAMI - Aug. 11, 2020 - PRLog -- Short Stories & Poems Feature an Eclectic (Egg-lectic) Mix of Tales

The Memoir Man: And Others In Public Places presents a thoughtful collection of short stories as well as poems. These range from a camouflaged homeless person pushing a grocery cart containing a typewriter, to a man walking on Fifth Avenue with a television on his head.

The book's 24 small dramas happen in public places and will touch emotions.

Consider the egg! A man sits at a table in a library peeling an egg and is watched in this endeavor by an obsessive woman. Another man sits on a train peeling an egg. What should he do with the tiny pieces of shells in his hands?

Other stories capture obsession, loneliness, nosiness, and brief moments of guilt or compassion.

In the short story "The Memoir Man," the man observed in the library eats the same lunch day after day, which consists of a boiled egg: "Sometime I will speak to the man who comes every day to the public library and writes. He has been coming and writing – using five carbons for each page – for four years and piling his five carbons on the long table . . . Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in the British Museum. The man could be another Karl Marx and I am watching him change the course of history. It's a shame they don't supply him with an office."

Perhaps the stories are more egg-lectic than eclectic, and are egg-actly what readers want.

Frances Webb has been writing for over 60 years while raising a family and teaching. This is her fifth book. The first three are novels, while the fourth and fifth are collections of short stories, many of which have been published in literary journals. The author grew up in a small town in New Jersey, and has lived and worked in Pennsylvania and New York. She is now retired and lives in a retirement community close to family.

Website: - http://www.sbprabooks.com/FrancesWebb