Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty
The small-town South and tobacco land. Incest, suicide, love, old men, old ways, Blacks, white folks, the Nixon administration from inside, travelling behind the Iron Curtain. Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming.
Excerpt
"It was a strange thing, this moon, that you never told anyone about, but sometimes it would race through the clouds all by itself when you were sitting still like tonight. Sometimes it would just hang there, and sometimes, when you were walking home at night from watching the Holiness Church people jumping and tossing their babies in the air, peeping through the door left open so the heat and hollering could escape, sometimes like that the moon would just ride along beside you as you hurried home, passing behind the trees and sliding its arms from branch to branch. "
Pieces of Eight is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas/short stories. Themes represented in the work are science fiction, paranormal, psychological drama, humor, murder/revenge and astrological fulfillment. Pieces of Eight is the com
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
