Fringe Locations: True & Fictional Stories

STORIES HEARD LIVED IMAGINED.Fringe Locations is a collection of 17 distinctly diverse tales from three continents and decidedly contrasting settings which bring to life a wide variety of characters from all walks of life: from a girl caught in a sand storm in South Africas interior a boy who shot his girlfriend an environmentalist who refused to be silenced a lawyer who flew to the Yucatan to find peace of mind to stories from Müllers life: meeting the poet Allen Ginsburg befriending a concentration camp survivor going on a pilgrimage to the active volcano Stromboli in Italy and his multifarious hitchhiking adventures over a ten year period. Though fictional many of the stories in Part One are based on true events. The autobiographical accounts in Part Two are all true save for some slight creative deviations. Together the stories traverse frontiers and probe the deeper levels of what it means to be human in this wonderfully variegated world of ours. Each story reflects on some level the indomitable striving of the human spirit in both grand and small ways. They are astute vignettes of the human condition encompassing loneliness socio-political injustices sickness sorrow death love companionship redemption succumbing and overcoming.Stories include: 1) The Red Wind 12) Hotel Pischa 113) Sundial 124) Pool Cleaner in the Yucatan 155) Up in Smoke 236) Optimistic Freshman 277) Yeah I Killed my Girlfriend 298) 4 33 329) Fringe Locations 3410) Draft Dodger 5711) A Walk-through Time and Snow 5512) Allen Ginsberg at the Atlantis 5813) Stromboli 6614) 7 Trains 7 Planes: A Blessing 7315) Water 8116) We Met at the Met 8117) Thumbing Down the Road 93