Karoo Tales & Images

There are times in your life when you yearn to change direction. Times when you have no handle on the new path you would like to follow, but the desire for new challenges and added fulfillment persists; until one day, like a ripe apricot falling from a hot Karoo fruit tree, the realization of what you need to do drops into your consciousness. This short anthology of largely fictional tales marks the start of Nicholas Yell's journey into the challenging, yet fulfilling world of short story writing, his subtle, sometimes laconic style often masks the unexpected twits that reveal themselves as the stories unfold. But even those few stories without his characteristic 'twists in the tale' trademark reveal observation powers, and a level of poignancy, that is not always accessible to the layman.