Free book (Kindle): THE OTHER SIDE

[Finan Promotions]

The Other Side, a short story collection by E. Thomas Finan, has just made the jump from print to Kindle. As part of the roll-out, it's being offered for the bargain price of $0.99---and some FREE copies are available. If you're interested in a free Kindle copy, send an email to finanpromotions@gmail.com.


A feeling rose within her during that silence, a feeling that, somehow, there could be a way. Somehow, they could step beyond. Somehow, they could meet the deep life, the life they had both thirsted for, that they had both feared...

This debut collection of seven short stories (30,000 words) by a rising young voice in American letters takes on the human condition with grit, humor, and insight. In "Lucy di Sartoria," a woman's marital infidelities prompt her to reevaluate her life. The title character of "Billy Stevens is 28" faces twenty-something angst, as the weight of missed opportunities falls squarely on his shoulders. "An Aria of Windrows" shows an office worker obsessing about a voicemail, and "Motley Black" is the comic tale of a melancholy man taking a cross-country bus trip. In the title story of the collection, a young wife afflicted with debilitating headaches notices strange things happening in her house.

The stories of The Other Side explore our connections and disjunctions with other people. Refusing the glib comforts of rote despair or a false happiness, The Other Side focuses on moments of personal growth as well as times of falling short---on the emotional hinges, defeats, and victories of life.


Top-10 Amazon reviewer Grady Harp says that "[Finan] has skill in abundance" and that "[t]hese are very fine short stories."

Thank you!