Tales for Commuters & Other Time Travelers

Discontent--an old mother and unexpected guests (read it now)

Primitive Replica--a young girl discovering her former lives through a looking glass

Witherspoon--a rich playboy battles his escort service

Tommie & Henry--extraterrestrials meet American Gothic

Harriet--a sexual sense memory ties a woman's life memories together

Dandridge--a temp draughtsman is out-seduced

Go For It--a salesman takes his boss literally

Philip Green--how distance  defines a romantic ordinary man

Applegate--a wrong stage exit strands an actor in limbo

Smith--an old gumshoe follows the money

Tumbleweeds--rock star emails

Hammer--tobacco-addicted girlfriend gets even with boyfriend

Bowditch--post-modernist academia and wretched excess

Betsy--crackpot speeches and liberation

Wesley--some ex-lovers can't be shaken

Mr. LaGrange--frightening visions from the vacant canvas

Rain of Steel--world of prehistoric egos in search of self

Life Negated--yoga and beauty

Delmore--radical philosopher gadfly and a vision of bums

Gorski--he was a sleazy punk but she loved him

Jarred--a high-flying career crashes and burns

Red--a veteran reliever's recipe for winning on the mound

Warren--even a great pilot can use a witch or two

Somewhere--a burned-out exec tries to put Humpty Dumpty together again

Copley--hack lawyer tries the patience of a trial judge

Messenger--ghetto teen helps a prostitute

Vanadium Winds--an asteroid, metal winds, two brothers and a beautiful woman

Photographer--woman photographer in South America finds her probing camera turned against her

Lattimore--the ugly American ex-patriot faces mob hatred

Margaret's Diary--single young woman dreams revenge on her absent fathers

Lizard's Bluff--the Old West as pictured from an archetypal mining town

Mornin' Pep Talk--memorable wake-up phrases

Till The Rain Stops, Yeah--child's frustration to go out to play

Greeter--a child's first job

Wildflower Stew--some things never change in the war of the sexes

Gift of Laziness--a 17 year old girl fantasizes about her Spanish teacher

Down East--a poet-executive on an island vacation in Maine

Getting Geometrical--mathematicians learn to dance

Latest Bloodshed--the Lovejoys suffer the American Dream

A Conga Line of Madness--genocide, current events & skeletons

Diner Date--death's been invited to dinner

Red Flags--military kid's memory of a Cold War vacation

Cloverleaf's Memo--a Viet Nam vet's note to a former Secretary of Defense

Coyote--an orphan coming of age seeks his freedom from grief

Prelude--gifted jazz pianist meets a femme fatale

Dream Woman--a Hollywood screenwriter meets a mystery woman

Broker--old traveling saleman reviews his career to a strange young man

Shipwreck--Confederate veteran saves a young boy and meets his own rescuer

Walt & Leeza--a retarded boy can see the dead but who will believe him

Rita Mae & The Ax Man--youth, kiss'n' cousins and Delta legends

Nighthawk--a street philosopher meditates on the symbol of gold