Still Life: Nine Stories — Nicholas Kaufmann

""(These tales) are told with a masterful skill. They are composed with a rhythm that is unique to Nicholas Kaufmann. Listen carefully as you read, and you'll hear that rhythm, catch the tempo written in notes of human suffering and a careful examination of the darkness that hides inside the tales Kaufmann has written. To me that rhythm is almost perfectly in sync with a heartbeat. Damn, I envy Kaufmann that. Masterful. Absolutely masterful."-James A. Moore (from his Introduction)"