Short stories of adventure, mystery, intrigue, and occasional mayhem for anyone to enjoy, but especially adults with early cognitive decline or mild dementia, elderly, low-vision, dyslexia, ADD, adults learning to read, ESL students, GED students, macular degeneration, and others.
Super Short Story – about 24-32 pages, 800-1500 words +/- Super Big Print, Verdana 25.
BINGO prize … door prize … gift baskets … Grandma … Grandpa … adults learning to read or read better … adults who don’t really like to read (yet!) … anyone else!
A fat paycheck from an anonymous employer is all it takes to convince Drake to eliminate Leonzio while he’s enjoying a fun evening with two beautiful women.
This collection was originally started for my Dad because he always loved to read, but as he got older, he was not able to handle the big size of large print books anymore, nor have the attention to finish the longer ones. He also could not see quite as well as he used to, so even “large print” was starting to be hard for him to read. To cure all these issues at the same time, the series A Little Spicy, A Little Dicey was created to provide super short stories that can be finished in one reading session, with super extra-large print, even bigger than usual “large print” books use (these are Verdana 25, huge!)
These “cops and robbers” genre adventure books are “little” in both content and format.
The content is just a little “spicy” … there might be beautiful women in skimpy outfits, and some lingering looks across the room from handsome men … but no graphic scenes of you-know-what in the romance department. The action and adventure might get just a little “dicey”, with detectives and spies on the lookout for various villains from the underworld, and with a few mentions of various kinds of weapons … but nothing gory, bloody, or seriously violent.
The format is super short fiction of approximately 800-1500 +/- words with super large print (Verdana 25).
This series has also been appreciated by many other adults, including people with ….
* low vision * short attention spans * ADD/ADHD * dyslexia * adults who are native English speakers but now learning to read later in life * Adult ESL students who are learning to read in English as their L+ language * Some adult ESL classes, depending on your class philosophy and sponsoring organization
