Snake and Other Short Stories

The book is a collection of ten short fiction stories.

The book is a collection of short stories. There is no common theme or plot to the stories. One is about a crime, another a fantasy that moves between the sixteen and twenty-first century. Several have sexual themes. A couple of stories deal with the clash between mainstream science and paranormal events. All the characters in the book are completely fictional.

Richard Bennett lives with his cat, Hooli, on five acres of woodland on lovely Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest. He has published nonfiction articles (backpacking, mountain climbing) in various magazines, journals, and newspapers and credits the first quarantine years of covid for giving him the opportunity and motivation to write this first book of short fiction stories.