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Stranded Love
Sanity is only skin deep. Love can be much deeper.
This collection of short stories explores how the strongest love can lead to evil, horror, and madness.
Five short stories exploring how the greatest evil and cruelty can ultimately point to...love:
- Tender Moments
- Love is Forever
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Mother's Love
- A Love To Live For
Each story delivers the message that the greatest evil can be the ultimate act of a tortured love, brought into or left in a difficult or helpless position. Where sanity gives place to the emotions running freely and without boundaries. And love, is the strongest emotion of them all.
This collection of short stories explores how the strongest love can lead to evil, horror, and madness.
Five short stories exploring how the greatest evil and cruelty can ultimately point to...love:
- Tender Moments
- Love is Forever
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Mother's Love
- A Love To Live For
Each story delivers the message that the greatest evil can be the ultimate act of a tortured love, brought into or left in a difficult or helpless position. Where sanity gives place to the emotions running freely and without boundaries. And love, is the strongest emotion of them all.
24 pages, ebook
First published October 3, 2012
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About the author
Massimo Marino
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Massimo Marino is an author with Booktrope Publishing LCC, an Active Member of SFWA— the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America association—and member of the CODEX group—https://www.codexwriters.com
He is the Author of multi-awarded Daimones Trilogy: Daimones, Once Humans, The Rise of the Phoenix: The Daimones Trilogy, Vol. 3
Currently writing "The Law" - a YA Urban SF novel.
He's a scientist envisioning science fiction. He spent years at CERN and The Lawrence Berkeley Lab followed by lead positions with Apple, Inc. and the World Economic Forum. In December 2013 he co-founded "SquaresonBlue", http://squaresonblue.com, a consultant service company on Big Data and Analytics.
Co-founder of BookGarage - www.bookgarage.com
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Massimo currently lives in France and crosses the border with Switzerland mutlitple times daily. But, no, he is not a smuggler...he plays golf.
With family, he lived on both sides of the Ocean Pond and they speak three languages at home, sometimes in the very same sentence even! They feel home where loved ones and friends are and have friends in Italy, Spain, France, UK, Switzerland, Germany and the US.
"Daimones" is based on personal experience and facts with an added "what if" to provide an explanation to current and past events. It is his first novel.
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August 9, 2016
No, sorry, Sig. Marino, I wasn’t very keen on this collection of five short (very, very short) stories. They were dark, violent, creepy and unsettling. They left a rather bad taste in my mouth.
The aim, I think, was to show that love isn’t always expressed conventionally; you know, with roses, champagne and diamonds. That expression can sometimes take a hideously twisted, murderous route. Psychopaths don’t usually have intentions with good outcomes.
I thought the stories just a tad too short. No sooner had they got going, they ended. They were rather bumpy…didn’t flow at all well. I found myself checking I was still in the same story and hadn't moved on to the next.
I think I need a very corny, clichéd chick lit now to restore my mind to its former pure and angelic state.
The aim, I think, was to show that love isn’t always expressed conventionally; you know, with roses, champagne and diamonds. That expression can sometimes take a hideously twisted, murderous route. Psychopaths don’t usually have intentions with good outcomes.
I thought the stories just a tad too short. No sooner had they got going, they ended. They were rather bumpy…didn’t flow at all well. I found myself checking I was still in the same story and hadn't moved on to the next.
I think I need a very corny, clichéd chick lit now to restore my mind to its former pure and angelic state.
July 11, 2013
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Massimo Marino is fantastic!
Stranded Love a.k.a. Tender Moments are filled with really really short stories.
But, they are seriously creepy.
The stories are fascinating because they are not connected yet somehow the connection is there within the stories.
I love love love the writing style. The whole story is just plain creepy. But it's good.
It is Creepy-Good. :D
Sincerely,
Selina.
www.booksandsweetepiphany.blogspot.com
Massimo Marino is fantastic!
Stranded Love a.k.a. Tender Moments are filled with really really short stories.
But, they are seriously creepy.
The stories are fascinating because they are not connected yet somehow the connection is there within the stories.
I love love love the writing style. The whole story is just plain creepy. But it's good.
It is Creepy-Good. :D
Sincerely,
Selina.
December 7, 2015
This collection of poetry is all about stranded love. I was impressed with how well the author showcased the stranded love them. I thoroughly enjoyed reading each poem. Poetry is an old love of mine that has fallen by the wayside with my other reading obsessions~paranormal romance and fantasy reads. I will definitely look forward to more of this author's work in the future.
May 19, 2014
A collection of short stories defining strong love gone wrong. Accurate portrayal of abnormal behavior. Serial killer type perspective.
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