Funnels

by Fay Knowles

A poignant short read by the author of short stories published in “The Lady” Magazine, London, England, and “The Broadkill Review”, Delaware, U.S.A. Featured in Moonbeams from the Soul: A Collection of Fourteen Provocative Short Stories.

Annie endures a tedious existence with her baby daughter and irresponsible casino dealer husband in what to most people is a tropical paradise. She sometimes gazes from their dilapidated porch at the distant funnels of luxury cruise ships docked in the harbour. If the wind is in the right direction, she hears the huge creatures wail, promising to take her away. She longs to escape from it all, but is tied down to eking a living with grueling double shifts in a local restaurant.

When an unexpected opportunity comes along she has to make a sudden decision. However, she is torn between her family and the prospect of elevating herself to a better life. What she decides determines their future.

Available as an e-book and in paperback.

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2020

About the author

Fay Knowles is a Scottish-born author who made The Bahamas her home decades ago. She has been writing since the age of nine and was trained as a reporter by Fleet Street journalists during her teens. Her short stories have been published in “The Lady” magazine, London, England, and “The Broadkill Review”, Delaware, U.S.A.; poetry in the British magazine “Evergreen”; and feature stories and articles in The Bahamas and U.K.
She is the author of an illustrated children’s chapter book, “Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure”; “Sunbeams from the Heart - A Collection of Twelve Romantic Short Stories”; “Dangerous Devotion”, a novel set in Scotland and The Bahamas (Buchanan Mystery Romance Series Book One); "Deadly Deceit In Paradise" (Buchanan Mystery Romance Series Book Two); “The Scottish Connection”, an illustrated mini-memoir of her 1978 journey back to Scotland with her mother and young sons, to revisit their Scottish roots; a writer's guide “How to Be the Best Writer Ever”; “Moonbeams from the Soul: A Collection of Fourteen Provocative Short Stories”; and "Funnels: A Short Story". These books are all available on Amazon as e-books and in paperback.
Fay also appears with her guitarist/vocalist/songwriter husband Erskine on their Tiktok video platform youngheartsforever, where she sometimes sings along with him and promotes her books. The couple, married for over 59 years, are on Youtube with the same user name.

Reviews

[Nick Rogers · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book has some flowing prose with some basic nice description. But the narrative is very dull and about nothing, really. It is about a couple on a cruise ship with a baby. The mother enters a beauty pageant...and that's about it. It was free, thank God, but I'll never get my ten minutes back from reading this.

[Roxanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good reading

I really enjoy this book. How the life change for this family. How one thing can change your whole life