Jerry Craven, a writer of literary fiction with a flare the dramatic, presents his best fiction in the 11 stories included in 'Ceremonial Stones of Fire.' Here you will meet Steven Duck, a Malaysian street dealer in coins who is determined to teach an American the way commerce can numb the spirit; Joko, a man in Bali who understands the true danger of magic monkeys and magic pigs; Weng, a man who must contemplate the moral implications of revenge upon a pirate; and other sympathetic characters who deal with what life brings them in what to us are exotic lands and events.