Light and Dark and Other Stories

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The stories in this book are unified in one sense: the main characters young to old experience remarkable moments of light and dark in their lives. An eighty-year-old writer finds his ordered life upended when his long-absent rocker daughter appears with her mentally impaired teenager; an adolescent boy finds out more than he cares to know about darkness from carnival workers; a man in love with a BBC Star Baker from afar attempts to live out his TV fantasies with unhappy results; a brainy autistic child learns compassion from a chickadee; a knife-thrower a stripper and a barrel racer alter each other's lives at a 4H fair; a Kansas farm woman finds a way back to the technicolor adventures of her youth guided by a religious con man. These and other stories thirteen in all are newly written published here for the first time.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>