SHORT STORIES ON AMAZON

The first of many to follow short stories is now available on amazon.com, for forty-nine cents each, to download onto your computer, read on a Blackberry or iPod, or print to read on the plane, by the pool, or wherever you choose to enjoy a good short story. 

The title of the first story is "Dubai, U.A.E.; 1973"  It is non-fiction, about my first of many adventures around the world.  Over the coming months, I will be adding more short stories, some fiction and some non-fiction, and when there are enough for a book, I will bring out the collection, titled, "Stories from Around the World." 

Getting a short story approved and posted on amazon.com/shorts is a slow process.  Patience being one of the author's challenges, he is pleased to annouce his second short story is now up, finally.  It is titled, "Kuwait," about a ten year-old little girl, whose father is transfered to Kuwait.  She meets and becomes friends with a little ten year-old Kuwaiti national, and they learn to overcome their differences in cultures.  It is a kind of a bitter-sweet story of innocence, discovery, and acceptance.   

Both "Dubai" and "Kuwait" are available for purchase at the hefty price of 49 cents each.  "I think they are worth ever cent," the author says.   

Note:  With the in-fighting in the industry, now, it's possible that these shorts may be removed, soon, with no notice, as one of my books was, recently.   Will

Amazon.com is currently running a power-play on publishers, trying to eliminate the competition, I suppose.  In the meantime, publishing houses who choose to not be coerced into letting Amazon squeeze out more profit, and pay lower royalties for writers, will not be sold on amazon.com. 

I will not be publishing nor possibly selling any books in the near future.  I will include an editorial comment, here:

I have watched U.S. corporations move from making an honest profit to making profit at the expense of competitors and consumers.  It has become the American way, to maximize profit by eliminating competition, not improving products or service.  I predict it will ultimately damage not just the consumer, but the corporations and their stockholders, as they lose profits in the long run, not continue to increase their profits. 

Corporations were given too much license to eliminate competition in the past years.  While it made it appear that we were prospering, we were destroying what made America great -- healthy competition; not unscrupulous profiteering.  I've watched as the large banks bought up the small banks and then the middle sized banks, with the blessing of the federal government.  Now, the banking industry is in bad shape, as a result of their practices, and they are so big we have little choice but to spend tax payer money to save them from their greedy and ignorant practices. 

Government does have a responsibility to control business, to promote healthy competition, not encourage greed at the expense of the consumer and We, the People.  In "Shifting Sands" I created a fictional character.  I made her a governor, not to be confused with Hillary Clinton.  She was open to changing the way America did business, and now we have a candidate who wants to make government more user firendly for people to prosper, putting past differences behind. 

America gets what it deserves and votes to support.  I sincerely hope we elect a new way forward, this time. 

Will Kester 

P.S.  If my opinion, here, deters you from buying or reading my books,  I just saved you some money.  If you don't like my opinion, you really aren't going to like my books.