True Colors: And Other Short Stories

In this short story collection, Michelle D. Argyle shares sixteen of her literary pieces written during 1999 - 2011. In the title story, "True Colors," the main character fights her vibrant personality against the true darkness lurking within her. The story builds until a row of six dead birds stop her in her tracks. In the opening story, "Thread," (also published in the 2011 collection, Stories for Sendai), a married couple's reaction to the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, 2011 reveals their own earth-shattering issues and what must be done to solve them. The lizard on the cover represents the story, "The Threshold," about a young boy with an intense physical attraction to a girl he's not supposed to touch. True Colors is a collection of quiet stories exploring the hidden, but often overlooked colors we try to hide every day. Sometimes they shouldn't be hidden at all. Also included are several poems and one prose poem picked as the staff choice award in New Mexico's Literary journal, Scribendi (2002).

Michelle has always loved amphibians and reptiles. Obviously, this love has entered into some of her fiction. She also loves food. Sushi and cheese and Greek are some of her favorites. Michelle has published several novels. True Colors is a reflection of her in many ways, encompassing her passion for producing a quality product with years of work behind it. Michelle plans on writing fiction until the day she dies—and perhaps even after that.