Sports Short Stories
Sports provide a great backdrop for stories. It seems that today almost everyone follows a sport team, whether it be football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer or others. We all have our favorite teams and players. But other sports can make great setting for short stories. Sports short stories that center on horse racing and the race track are exciting and exhilarating.
A collection of stories by D.S. Williamson entitled “and they’re off!: Stories From The Racetrack”, centers on the lives of three different sets of characters with the racetrack as backdrop. The format works well, giving the reader the opportunity to read a few different stories with a common theme.
The collection is about the struggles of life and overcoming adversity. It deals with what we all have had to deal with in one way of another. With great dialogue and well developed characters, each story delves into the mind of the reader. The beauty of the short stories is that you can complete it in a very short period of time. There are no chapters to keep up with or get lost in. The stories hook you at the beginning, climax in the middle and conclude, sometimes with a shocking ending.
Sports short stories are popular in that they take the excitement of a sport and add a human element to it. In any setting, there is life going on around it. The game must still be played, the race must still go on. Whatever trials and tribulations are being played out there is another force going on at the same time.
These short stories tie in man and beast and how the two may be different but are so much the same. How animals can help us deal with our lives is amazing and interesting. Horse racing is a sport of courage, perseverance and consistency. It contains a lot of the elements that we deal with in every day life.
D.S. Williamson ties it all together in a fine collection of stories that are easy to read and interesting. The stories take us on a journey and teach us that anything is possible, that nothing is that bad and even if it is, we have the strength and courage to deal with it.
Seven short stories that show how little control we really have over our own fate. Readers embrace the stories and relate it to their own lives and struggles they may face. Each story has its own meaning and ending, that is not always a happy ending, just as in life.
- Peter Lackey
Tags: Man And Beast, Racetrack, Short Period, Sport Team, Trials And Tribulations
