The Era of Lanterns and Bells

In The Era of Lanterns and Bells a lighthouse is haunted by the memory of lighthouse keepers a train operator is forever changed by a subway suicide a journalist befriends a homeless virtuoso an orca trainer believes shes a whale an aerialist runs away from the circus and a Golden Gate Bridge jumper saves lives with fortune cookies. An obese woman is rescued from being a shut-in a woman discovers that her favorite childhood pond is polluted and cancer-causing a woman falls in love with a bipolar man in Jamaica and an arborist writes love letters from trees. These quirky and darkly comic stories entertain while posing essential questions about truth compassion and humanity.