FICTION 26

Community Of Liars is an investigation of tale making thoughts about the master of the universe by way of husband and wife.

Remember the easy Saturday night dances when women dressed in mink stoles, hats and heels, while men checked in their coats and hats then straightened out the sleeves of their ironed shirts by their cuff links? When the reassuring music had shape and the dance floor felt like a second home? These times inspired my story "Cocktail Set." Enjoy the memory.

JUST THE WIND delivers a frightening account of racial tension in Walibe, Oklahoma and what one boy must do to save the lives of his parents.   

After years as an ugly duckling, Grace Rasmussen undergoes a dental makeover. Then she begins to experience life as an ordinary duckling. Is there a difference?

A Yankee finds himself deep in the South caught between glaring modernity and a hand from the past.

What if a smoking gun appeared, proving without a doubt that George W. Bush stole the 2004 election? This is the premise of "Looking Back on the Events of 2007," which is seen through the eyes of Beverly Handerly, an obscure webzine writer who has the scoop of the young century fall into her lap. Her source is an old college boyfriend who became a computer programmer for the same Weibold Corp. that makes the voting machines. The more the spotlight terrifies her, the more unavoidable it grows.

An Umbrella in High Water is the tale of a senator cheating on his wife and how he is really wanted by his mistress.

A young office clerk must decide between a 9-5 job and his obsession.