I Do: Tales of Relationships

by B.R. Johnson

Short stories of southern fiction. Some contain tales of adult or child abuse, others are about lasting love. Relationships come in all forms, from that beginning in childhood to much later in life, whether it be romantic love or serious friendships. In this set of stories, you will find many kinds of relationships.

Just as people are alike this country over, they come in all flavors. Philly Cheese Steak in the North becomes barbecue in the South, youse becomes y’all. Wherever you’re from, these stories will resonate. They’re friends, neighbors, people talked about in whispers, maybe. To paraphrase, happy people are the same everywhere, unhappy folks are unhappy in their own ways.

Meet Andrew and Gladys, and Jim and Audrey who are happy in their ways. Meet Lucy who is unhappy in her own unique way, and Jeanne who makes her own happiness.

Another set of short stories coming out soon. Maybe a novel before that.

115 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2015

About the author

B. R. Johnson is a clinical psychologist and an adjunct professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, teaching in the Psychology and Sociology Department. He grew up in the Westside neighborhood where most of the fictional works he has written take place. He was born in 1943, and has lived in the Los Angeles area all his life. The Los Angeles he knew in his early years was not that different from Trudy Mansfield's. While he was too young to actually remember the war years, his mother and older brother told many stories about their experiences, accounts which have been incorporated into the narrative, have inspired scenes, and have added textural details. Johnson also has a website which is an homage to the greater Los Angeles area. You will find many photographs of iconic places. L.A. is a region of contradiction, a land of diversity and sameness, of the profound and the trite, of glamour and vulgarity, of the genuine and the fake, of astonishing success and troubling disappointment. Visit: www.iconicland.com.