LOCKS: a quartet of short fiction

by Beth Porter

The whole world is whirling in confusion. Months of contradictory reporting from governments and their advisors have eroded trust and released dammed up floods of destruction and threat. Happily some people have been concentating on using the limits on their social freedom to fuel creativity. This volume of short fiction is my attempt; word play as a basis to explore meaning.Locks is such an ambiguous word. Follow it with adjectives of being, and stories emerge from unexpected corners into the light. These are four of them.

82 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2021

About the author

New Yorker Beth began acting professionally at age 12, coming to prominence as part of the award-winning LaMaMa Troupe. She was part of the Greenwich Village scene during the culturally-amazing 1960s. With her Scottish husband, she co-founded the Troupe's UK branch, touring throughout Europe. Her successful solo career in films & television includes starring roles in Woody Allen's Love & Death; Tales of the Unexpected; Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; and hit series Rock Follies. Acting segued into media journalism as London Editor of Film Journal International; writing fiction & plays; being appointed BBC-TV development executive; & working as exec producer of corporate websites for an international webhouse. Intellect Publishing brought out her book The Net Effect, a socio-cultural account of the internet, with a foreword by David Lord Puttnam. Resident Aliens was her first solo collection of short stories. In September 2014 she published Drama Queen, a collection of her original scripts and screenplays, and in April 2016 she published her autobiography Walking On My Hands: how I learned to take responsibility for my life with the help of Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Greta Garbo, Harvey Milk, Idi Amin, Guy the Gorilla, & Frank Sinatra among others. Its foreword is by Shane Connaughton, award-winning novelist and screenwriter of My Left Foot. Settling Beyond The Pale is her 2nd collection of short fiction. Beth's first published novel is ScreenSaver! It's a rom-com with a fantasy twist. Her 2nd novel, Becca's Providing, was published in the spring of 2019. All are available as eBooks on Amazon. Her Wikipedia page is @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Porter LATEST AUTHOR NEWS: Painted Ladies: a kaleidoscope of stories, has gone live on Amazon. This is her 3rd collection of short fiction, each story takes its inspiration from a well-known painting of a woman.