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Focke: The Short-Lived King Of Short Stories

Focke: The Short-Lived King Of Short Stories

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Before his untimely death in 1967, Focke lived in poverty and poetry; he struggled to make ends meet and spent his days mulling over melancholies.

This omnibus combines Focke's magnum opus The Reflection Collection, Seasons Of Love, The Zoobadoo Zoo, and other never-before-seen tales from the Short-Lived King of Short Stories.

Stories:

The Reflection Collection
A Salmon Amongst Trouts
Chance Is No Mere Happenstance
Borderless Bedlam
Creative Absolution
Mark V — The Faltered Industry
Balvur — The Source Of Divine Wisdom
The Melendrin Road
Velerio — The Unsettling Truth
Bandorv — The Broken & Rotten

Seasons Of Love

Time Ethereal
The Discovery Of Forlorn Wonder
Death Wish
Fluttering Love
The Fifth Season

The Zoobadoo Zoo

The Fernando

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