The Road Less Taken

A Collection of Unusual Short Stories, Book 1

By: Theodore Jerome Cohen

Narrated by: Tyler Kauffman

Theodore Jerome Cohen's first serious attempt to write a short story for publication was in 1962 while he was working in Antarctica. The story he penned--about a man killed by a pod of orcas--was lost during his return to the United States. It wasn't until 2009, when he resurrected the tale and incorporated it in his post-modern novel, Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World, that the horror of the episode, which was based on a real encounter by three Chilean Army enlisted men with a pod of orcas, appeared in print. Time did not dim the horror of what happened at sea that day. Now this story and others--unusual stories about Ted's life as a violinist, about a woman who seeks the help of a fortune teller to divine the future of her daughter, and about a university professor obsessed with the making of coffee--are vividly brought to life in the eleven short stories found in this book.

©2016 Theodore Jerome Cohen (P)2024 Wordwooze Publishing

It's Okay

I always hesitate to listen to collections of short stories because they always leave me wanting more. Maybe that's the point of the short story, I don't know. I really liked some of the stories in here: "Write What You Know," "Requiem for Solly," "Unforgiven," "One Man's Journey Home," but a few of the stories left me hanging or just ended anticlimatically: "Encounter on All Hallows' Eve" and "On Making Coffee and Other Scientific Endeavors." Narration was done well.



I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

great book

Gave this book 5 stars, everything about this book is amazing, I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. Overall excellent book.

Unusual short stories

The Road Less Taken is a collection of unusual and unique short stories. Theodore Jerome Cohen wrote so great short stories. Tyler Kauffman did a great job with the narration. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review. Highly recommend

Diverse short stories

The stories were diverse and interesting. There were definitely a few that could probably be fleshed out into a complete novel because when the story ended I wanted more.
This was a good writer and good narrator.