Steeplechase and Other Stories

<p><em>Steeplechase and Other Stories (SOS)</em> is a collection of tales somewhat biographical spanning over seven decades set across highways porches and turning points. Thoughtful and thought-provoking these stories tug at memory and tilt the lens on everyday truths.</p><p>You'll meet Monarchs who refused to migrate and families that stayed intact not because the odds said so but because a stubborn father on the way to an office picnic refused to exit after he severed his arm near Versowa a remote fishing village in Mumbai.</p><p>Inside there's a slap that still stings a cicada that posed for a photograph and a delivery story timed with emergency flashers football quarterbacks and one miracle kid.</p><p>Finally thank God or whoever is upstairs editing books it culminates in the final section <em>'My Father's House and Beyond</em>' where legacy comes with a quiet resolve-to continue a friendship between a 15-year-old Indian kid and a 23-year-old young American a flame-thrower from a visiting circus in Mumbai.</p><p>These stories don't preach. Whether I'm writing about DEI a slap or an accident that should never have happened they live inside me and insist on coming out. Mostly I held my tongue spoke with my eyes and sometimes waved at injustice with nothing but silence.</p><p><em>SOS</em> isn't a cry for help. It's a call to read remember and maybe laugh while you're at it.</p>