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| A Life in Progress, and other short stories, by Tracy Million Simmons |
- Meadowlark Bookstore
- Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore (or your favorite local indie)
- Amazon
- Barnes and Noble
ISBN-13: 978-0996680134
ISBN-10: 0996680136
BISAC: Fiction / Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, Tracy Million Simmons captures slices of
life, glimpses of everyday people and everyday thoughts and actions, and the
many moments—touching, amusing, happy, sad—of lives in progress. This book is
an intimate peek into a writer’s stash, written across the decades, an
experience of timelessness and the human condition. Through fiction, these
stories reveal relatable truths.
“Like Oreo cookies, I kept reaching for
another until the whole package was gone.”
~ Michael D. Graves, author of To
Leave a Shadow
“In this big-hearted book, we see the lives of Midwesterners
through their own eyes. Tracy is our own Emporia version of Grace Paley, and
she moves with compassion and empathy from stories of childhood to stories set
at the nursing home, always with that kind of plucky magic for which Kansas
storytellers are known, a wise twinkle in their eyes.”
~ Kevin Rabas, author of
Songs for My Father
“Tracy Million Simmons shows clearly the moving parts of
relationships. Her stories reveal the irreversible ties of family. She shows
the push-and-pull between spouses, between parent and child, between dear
friends, and we see how we’re all recklessly and joyfully bound one to
another.”
~ Cheryl Unruh, author of Walking on Water
“A Life in Progress is
filled with a variety of diverse and in-depth studies and stories about people
of all ages and for readers of all ages. Tracy Million Simmons shows astute
awareness and intuitive chameleon-like ability to be inside the head of both
male and female, young and old, and across a diversity of cultures. Her work is
not only emotional and heartfelt, but astoundingly on target. The price of this
book is worth it for each story. A highly recommended read that kept me satiated
with unexpected surprises and delights.”
~ Ronda Miller, Life Coach and author
MoonStain (2015) and WaterSigns (2017)
“...so many thought provoking stories
that live in your head long after reading them.”
~ Yvonne Evie Green, Write
Stuff Coordinator, Topeka, KS
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