The Ice Child

</>Addressing a consistent set of themes���most revolving around characters who are in conflict with one another based on differences in culture age or personality���The Ice Child offers eleven moving short stories by author Leon Arden.</p></>The collection introduces a wide cast of characters and scenarios. A husband and wife touring Mexico are confronted while on horseback by savage bandits; a young man tries to rescue his mother from his father���s obsession which is filling their apartment with more books than it can hold; a comic drama between two lovers is waged solely through messages left on their answering machines; a son wheels his sick father into a hospital and demands at gun point that he be given a heart by-pass; a lovely English woman arrives in New York to find she must share an apartment with a man she has never met; and a failed writer with two friends programs a computer to create a salable story but ominously the PC also predicts their immediate future. </p></>Bookended by stories about youth and old age The Ice Child presents a unique but highly entertaining collection of tales.</p><P><i>...Arden...manages to bring each story to life with a creative vibrancy and colourful prose...Savory memorable morsels of brilliance from a clever wordsmith and a considerable talent to watch.</i></P> -Kirkus Reviews