Fictions: Short Stories and Other Limitations

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Short Stories and Other LimitationsA Venetian gondolier pursues love in the midst of war.A surgeon, burdened by loss and regret, renounces his heart.A delivery fails to meet expectations.A horoscope reading takes a dire turn.A professor sinks into the abyss of a nervous breakdown.A millionaire's extravagant expense leads to a transformation.The characters in these stories struggle with limitations both internal and external. Pushing through the boundaries of their ambition, hope, circumstance, patience, and knowledge, they take matters into their own hands. The results are unexpected.Eland Mann is an author, best-selling editor, and co-founder of Conversation Publishing. A graduate of The George Washington University, he worked previously in publishing as an in-house managing editor and ghostwriter and in journalism as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent, with publications on Yahoo.com and in National Geographic Traveler Mongolia, among others. In hybrid publishing, he's helped hundreds of authors to create and publish a book. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and two children.