Anthology of third world writers. Second volume in a series starting with The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (pub. 2001; reviewed in Publishers Weekly, ForeWord, Midwest Book review et al.). Contains well-established...
A ship-wrecked space sailor is rescued by the oxygen-deprived inhabitants of a distant solar system. They treat him like royalty, but he soon realizes there is something fishy about Leffingwellians besides their appearance: Their culture is identical...
A top doctor discovers he has the power to kill patients as readily as cure them, just by a word or gesture. What’s more, he can do it legally and, as it turns out, quite lucratively…until he’s tripped up by his own success. Or is he?Eight page...
""He began to cry. One moment he was calmly drying his hands on a piece of brown paper toweling, and the next his face was contorted with misery, a child's hopeless grief made all the more grotesque by his forty-year-old features. A geyser of"...
""I stand holding the Macy's bag half full of the few last dear things I dare take with me. I avoid his big green eyes made twice as large by the thick glasses he's worn since adolescence. I'd see too much in them, too much of myself, of us. I"...
What do you do when your next-door neighbor is arrested for sexual molestation? How does a dirt farmer from the old country feel about working for a Jewish landsman? The author's world embraces Catholic convents, risqu? Halloween parties and the s...
SONG OF THE MOCKINGBIRD is the story of a mature woman's self-discovery. Five years widowed but still bound to the man to whom she was married for thirty years, Doris gradually comes to discover her life not only is not over but is just beginning in ...