ASIN: B006E4K1XC
Publisher: Capital Ideations, LLC
Pages: 419
I completed these short stories during the years immediately following completion of my undergraduate degree. For the first time in my life, I was working professionally as an information technology consultant (this despite my having majored in biology and chemistry) and earning a decent salary. I was also learning about the treachery of my fellow human beings through the many nightlong infidelities of my first wife, who I divorced in the year after I wrote these words. These are transitional efforts. They are primarily character studies drawn from my growing worldliness due to the incessant travel of my profession.
As usual in my early works, I spend a great deal of time on violence and its mostly negative repercussions, as in “Oak of Ropes”, “Sleeping Without Dreaming”, “Rosewyld”, “Magic Valley”, “What the Dead May Do”, “The Boy, The Girl”, “Terrible Teardrops”, “The Nightly ...
