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A teenage boy named Ben falls in love with haiku, a Japanese form of poetry. He can bestow the gift of creating haiku on anyone he chooses. Muriel is a researcher from a distant future. During an archeological excavation, she finds a leather pouch full of letters on a postman's corpse. These letters revealed how the world we knew had collapsed into a dystopia. António has a loving husband, two wonderful twins, and a supportive church community in Santa Monica. But he fights terminal cancer and must make a difficult decision for the good of his family. Raziel rules the kingdom of Elves. He gets mystically connected to a boy named Yonatan, whose mother physically abuses him. Missing Possibilities by Jaime Balboa is a mesmerizing collection of 16 short stories for magical realism, fantasy, drama, and psychological prose fans.
In Missing Possibilities, Jaime Balboa, a master of short stories, paves the way for empathy and tolerance. Some of these stories will make us smile and cry, but none will leave us indifferent. Such is the power of Jaime's beautiful and profound prose. Every story in the collection is compelling. The stories often have an unexpected twist, like "The Wise Judge," where a grandmother tells her granddaughter an old family secret. This short story, with the flavor of a biblical account, shows us the depth of fatherly love and dedication. Jaime narrates "The Haiku Muse" with sparkling humor and enriches it with lyrical haiku poems. True magic is just around the corner, and everybody can become a poet to see ordinary things in a different light. "Raziel's Last Enchantment" is based on real events. It is Jaime's wonderful and heartbreaking tribute to a mistreated boy. Missing Possibilities is not always an easy read. But for us, it's a necessary read to become more open to the needs of others and more compassionate toward their pain.
