Shores of Silver Seas

I completed these stories shortly after divorcing my first wife, a tumultuous time for my family. When life in Dallas became unbearable, I sold almost everything I owned, and then I packed the rest into my girlfriend’s car for the four hour trip south to Houston. I made the trip on a twenty year old Honda 400cc motorcycle with my pet cat in a backpack (in fact, that cat made this trip TWICE – the third time she got to ride in a car!). That girlfriend is now my long-time and most adored wife, and these stories reflect a transitional period of increasing maturity and a growing sense of human empathy.

This collection contains several of my most emotional stories, including "The Ant", "At the Very Far Away Ends of It All", "The Disease That Rots the World", "An Abiding Silence", "This Little Patch of Grass That Is Mine", "Down In The Dark Where The Devil Dwells", "The Lawn Boy", and "Whispers", along with several of my grittier tales, like "The Prometheus Project", "Machines of War", "Fucking the Devil", "The Retirement", "Numbers", "Final Remarks", "Nine Lives", "The Corporal Would Survive", "A Needle Awaits", and "Good-bye Thaddeus". Finally, I delve into the surreal and bizarre with "The Immaculate", "The Mountains Keep Their Dead", "The Road to Texas", "To Shovel Sandy Beaches", "Punching God", and "It Happened In The Groves". I hope you read and enjoy them all, much as you would enjoy standing on the shores of silver seas watching the sun set over a warm summer evening.