Basics of Life is an anthology of 12 short stories; 2 each on the topics of survival, friendship, romantic love, ambition, responsibility and death. SURVIVAL Do or Die by Derek Taylor Twenty Days by Sophie Masson FRIENDSHIP The Girl Who Lives at Number 54 by Belinda Dorio Visiting Rights by George Ivanoff ROMANTIC LOVE To Have Loved and Lost by Rachel Plum Holidays at the Lake by James Crown AMBITION Kimberley Fortune by Rekha Ambardar The Film Festival by Emma Salkild RESPONSIBILITY A House Divided by JR McRae Foreign Soil by Jan Turner Jones DEATH Growth by SM Johnston I Will Save You by Beau Hillier