Stories From the Years
A Collection of Short Stories by Christopher Lee Roeters
Some stories are written in the middle of a life. These were written across one.
Collected here for the first time are twelve short stories written between the novels - some from the early days, when the author was still in middle and high school, and some from the decades since. Together, they trace a lifetime of writing about the things that matter most: loss, survival, faith, found family, and the stubborn presence of light in the hardest places.
From a sheriff investigating the disappearance of children on a quiet island, to two boys who survive a school shooting and become brothers, to the raw testimony of a young medic working Christmas Eve in the Arctic - these stories move between fiction and memoir, between the imagined and the lived, without ever losing the thread that connects them.
Each one is a doorway. Each one is written to do the same thing: to sit with the reader in whatever they are carrying, and to remind them that they are not alone.
Whether you have read the author's other work or are meeting him here for the first time, Stories From the Years is an invitation - to enter slowly, to feel deeply, and to come away with something worth keeping.
Twelve stories. A lifetime in the writing.
