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|  | | Gardening Without Gloves
"There is energy here, the kind of sensual energy that is lacking from most fiction today…a fascinating piece of writing."
-- Raymond Federman, author of Take It or Leave It
What comes of Gardening Without Gloves? Read each of the twelve stories in this volume to find answers that you wouldn't expect. On one level Memmott's book is an excursion into the psychology of love, while on another level it voices the despair of love and relationships misunderstood. One story shows this weathered visage and another one that. The characters, in their own dangerous and diametrical ways, are overcome by the elusive, and sometimes disillusioning, expectations of love. Flawed by misapprehension, they are often left bereaved, puzzling only the ambiguities of love, or what they t | |  | | Riding the Absolute
"A deeply philosophical collection of poems, assaying the ultimate questions with élan and music."
(-- Writer's Digest)
| |  | | Sweet Sally Ann
Told in lyrical, rhapsodic prose, SWEET SALLY ANN is a strange and witty tale about fear, death, and the quandary of a restless volcano ultimately slaked by the magma of love.
By turns quirky and inventive, humorous and adept, Sweet Sally Ann challenges the depths of childhood fear, from the suspicion of parents on the verge of divorce to the prospect of something that lurks in the woods. When young Cody Bryant becomes obsessed with the disappearance of his classmate, everything that was right seems suddenly wrong. A year later, when he discovers her bones, it's time to rethink the world at large and all that emerges from it -- the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real.In resolving the dramatic and tightly contained mystery of what happened to Sall | |  | | The Gypsy Lover
"A seductive, mesmerizing tale, eloquently told."
Such is the consensus among readers and reviewers alike. This dark, haunting tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you.
To escape a life of abuse, fifteen-year-old Evan Adamson sacrifices the love of his childhood sweetheart only to find himself caught up in the ill-begotten adventures of three Gypsy outcasts who ultimately teach him the ways of the heart and the soul, and most importantly that, "...there will always be that in this world which goes beyond understanding and speaks to the heart in a more meaningful way." There is Mad Nikolai, who carries a secret beyond the possibility of thought; the old fortune-teller, who comes to accept Evan as part of their "destiny"; and Armanda, the sixteen-year-old beaut |
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On the Edge of Words
by Debra Kraft
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 Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises, |
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