Other Places Other Times

<p><strong><em>Other Places Other Times</em></strong> is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period circa 600 C.E.</p><p><br></p><p>As a boy Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission. He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet. Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses. The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems which are also included. </p><p><br></p><p>The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations from post-war England to Renaissance Italy Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth Ruthenia in the seventeenth and the American West after the Civil War.</p>