A View from the Bottom

Like a cross between 'Flash Fiction International' and 'Best Travel Writing' but primarily about working class people in Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, California, and Dublin, Ireland. A mixture of short stories, flash fiction, micro fiction, and a novella at the end comprising a plethora of characters and settings in these diverse, eclectic cities. (The novella includes one song and some essays by characters in the story.) Ava Collopy has traveled around North America and Europe while working various paid and volunteer jobs.She grew up in an unfinished cabin in a forest in Oregon, U.S. where she had to teach herself how to read while being home-schooled.She has lived in Ireland for many years while pursuing various academic qualifications which now include an MBA, a B.A. in Liberal Arts (English major, History and Business Studies minors), a Higher Diploma in Supply Chain Management, a CELT English-teaching Certificate, 10 teacher development certificates from Cambridge University's online learning portal, and a Higher Diploma in MS Office.She is an English language teacher for young adults who is interested more than anything in helping human beings achieve their full potential.She's a happily life-long non-mom with many friends, who's oft enjoyed being a single independent female, a fact she proudly promotes to remind people everyone is free to be their own person.Her nonfiction is published in 'Inspired Migrant Women in Ireland', 'Edible Red', 'Down in the Dirt', and 'The Relic the Effort the Yelp'.Her fiction is published in 'White Liquor Steemit', 'Beautiful Losers', 'White Liquor', 'Down in the Dirt', 'Brilliant Flash Fiction' (as A.C.), 'Sunlight in the Sanctuary', 'Treading Water', and 'Adrift'.Her poetry is published in 'Down in the Dirt', 'CC&D', 'Poetry Pacific', 'Re/ Verse', 'Verse Virtual', 'Ascent Aspirations', and others.Her books are: Nonfiction: 'The Irish-American Experience: Proletariat Research Papers', Fiction: 'A View from the Bottom: Short Stories', 'Live Boldly, Fear Nothing: a Vigilante and a Painter, a Novel', and'8 Days a Week: the Story of a Working Man, a Novel', Poetry: 'Disarm: Poems & Songs', About writing: 'Learning to be a Good Editor: by Adapting Novels into Screenplays, and Stage Plays' and'Unending Horizons: Three Years of Advice for Writers', As Editor (and a contributor): 'Unity is Now: an Anthology of the UU* Poetry Group'.Her website is: http: //www.avacollopybooks.weebly.com(*Unitarian Universalist, a liberal religion.) Some of the content of some of the stories in this book is graphic and not intended for a youth aud