Aki O'Mitovski

The Other Pandemic (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An old man reconsiders long held affections. A young woman deals with an emotionally lost female customer. Two young parents fight isolation as one of them works at the local supermarket and one teaches from home. A self-proclaimed socialite descends into the depths of social media and his need for recognition.

These are just a handful of the characters found in this eloquent and raw collection of short stories set in the global pandemic of 2020. Loneliness and love, hope and regret etch out stories of survival -- both physical and psychological.

Some stories examine the effect of social media. Other explore the depth of fevered dreams. A few tangle with the intricacies of relationships, both present and past. Each character, in their own way, must learn to survive what has engulfed the world.

Together, these stories paint a brutal and beautiful vision of the individual moments existing below the thunder of global news. Discover these intimate stories for yourself. Written in easily accessible and direct prose that capture each character's voice. Get your copy of The Other Pandemic today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aki O'Mitovski
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201258009
• Artikelnr.: 62534459

Autorenporträt

Aki O'Mitovski, native of North Macedonia and a European at heart, has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2008. He's taught English to pretty much all age groups, social classes, and walks of life, in North Macedonia, China, and currently, Malta. Some of the more memorable experiences include correcting mispronunciation of words like 'focus', 'coke', and 'happiness' (if you don't pronounce the initial H) in a single conversation with French-speaking students, or creating a tongue-twister challenging enough for his Spanish-speaking students, which goes: a bear and a bird with a beard were drinking beer.

He's been mistaken for an American more than once, a couple of times for a Latino, and gets mistaken for a Maltese all the time. The conversations that ensue have often been the starting point of friendships, and/or a good night out with beer and barbecue.

When he's not teaching English or writing short stories, he watches (and re-watches) lots of Star Trek, wishing he wore a blue-and-black uniform, and enjoys discovering new sci-fi shows and movies. He also has a keen interest in poetry, both reading it and writing his own. He's yet to write poems that talk about spaceships or gay Klingons, though.