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After Dinner Conversation - Nature of Reality
Alexis DubonSeries: After Dinner Conversation - Themes5
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These Carefully curated stories from “After Dinner Conversation” magazine to create a themed short story book about philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.
Story Summary List
“Home For the Holidays”: A son comes home for the holidays to find his parents have shrunk to two feet tall.
“Abrama's End Game”: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit and is forced to fight across realities when she discovers their plan to shut it down.
“Rose-tinted Glasses”: Two children race to get glasses that allow adults to see the magical world around them to the Fairytale Fellowship before it's too late.
“The Big, Immovable I”: Daphne is institutionalized while trying to answer the question, "Why am I, I?" Sort of Polarity: A new disease hits the earth that causes very selective blindness in humanity.
“The Angel in the Juniper”: Holly meets an angel who tells her to kill her revolutionary professor.
“Seconds Last”: A man enjoys an infinite number of perfect days in the park with his friend.
“Acceptance”: A man sinking in mud refuses help.
“Glad All Over”: An elderly man helps his fellow season-ticket holder with his existential crisis with philosophy lessons.
“I Do So, Like Durian”: A sheltered teen on a quest through Chinatown finds a new world to explore.
Story Summary List
“Home For the Holidays”: A son comes home for the holidays to find his parents have shrunk to two feet tall.
“Abrama's End Game”: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit and is forced to fight across realities when she discovers their plan to shut it down.
“Rose-tinted Glasses”: Two children race to get glasses that allow adults to see the magical world around them to the Fairytale Fellowship before it's too late.
“The Big, Immovable I”: Daphne is institutionalized while trying to answer the question, "Why am I, I?" Sort of Polarity: A new disease hits the earth that causes very selective blindness in humanity.
“The Angel in the Juniper”: Holly meets an angel who tells her to kill her revolutionary professor.
“Seconds Last”: A man enjoys an infinite number of perfect days in the park with his friend.
“Acceptance”: A man sinking in mud refuses help.
“Glad All Over”: An elderly man helps his fellow season-ticket holder with his existential crisis with philosophy lessons.
“I Do So, Like Durian”: A sheltered teen on a quest through Chinatown finds a new world to explore.