Download or read book The Audistic and Other Stories written by Nelson Bryksa and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eleven-year-old deaf girl stands in the cold, clutching the hand of the only adult she feels she can trust. A man rolls under a giant creature awaiting his fate in the black waters of the Pacific. A father tries to be inconspicuous in a line of emigrants disembarking a ship in a strange country. A young woman struggles helplessly through the winter night onto a busy highway and collapses unseen by an oncoming transport driver. A man perches in the dark on the outside ledge of a thirteen-story office building to find refuge from his troubled life. An airline passenger contemplates a mission that will bring him closure. These are some of the scenes in Nelson Bryksa's The Audistic and Other Stories. In this nine-course setting of fiction, creative non-fiction and actual events, he tells stories of prejudice, courage, and adventure.