"Cities," winner of an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, reminisces about a lifetime spent living in and visiting great cities around the globe.
In "Evidence," a middle-aged actor remembers two former girlfriends, opposites in every way, who presumably still own photographs of him naked.
"The Grand Tour" follows a small-time nineteen seventies crooner and his disparate bandmates on a hilarious American road trip.
In "Grounded on Garbage," the pilot of a commercial jetliner accidentally touches down at the wrong airport, built on a precarious landfill seven miles away from the right airport.
"The Hijacking of the Dave Mandarine Band" examines what happens when a greedy nightclub owner and a dishonest musician cannot leave bandleading to the bandleader.
In "Hope, for Now," a man remembers a lonely evening with a sweet young prostitute.
"The Impresario" satirizes another arrogant club owner and his mistreatment of the musicians who keep his business open.
"Jocelyn Davies" is a lovelorn singer whose sexual awakening dissolves a stalled relationship.
"Karla in the Closet" follows a lesbian's high-school sweetheart through two stunning reunions that span four decades.
In "Keeping Score," a brilliant young math student has an affair with her English professor and offers him a novel way to remember her and her predecessors.
"La bataille des bandes" tours the world with a successful French Beatles tribute band that refuses to sing or speak English.
In "Library Daydream," a novelist moonlighting as a library cataloger imagines things one might say to an uneducated employer.
In "Madeira in Translation," a man reminisces about a beautiful young Brazilian he met on vacation and the communication they developed in the absence of words.
"The Mansfield Effect" recalls a comic one-night stand with an over-endowed drama student.
"Minton and Mistral" is a tragic love story about two conjoined twins.
In "Nora in the Office," a man remembers the first time he made love with a colleague.
In "Out of Sequence," a telekinetic tourist wreaks havoc on Key West's technocratic music scene.
"Perils of Paris" follows the misadventures of an accident-prone teenager.
"Piano Trio" describes a noisy sex romp taking place upstairs in an old woman's guesthouse.
In "Saved by the Guitar Solo," the jazz buyer of a large Baltimore record store considers rock songs whose most attractive feature is their guitar solo.
"Scarred for Life" reveals the fixation of a young woman who as a little girl had witnessed a case of indecent exposure.
In "The Sculpture Gardener," a Key West arts administrator turned call girl describes a sensual afternoon with her first client, a respected artist who had sat on her organization's board of directors.
In "Second Thoughts," a young woman serving thirty years for killing her husband on their honeymoon discusses the crime with her new cellmate.
In "The Siren of Salt Lake City," a musician remembers the most reckless one-nighter of his career.
"Sybil and Biff" are two college students, one sexually dynamic and the other merely tantalizing.
"The Teflon Hayseed" lampoons an illiterate county-government employee whose lack of credentials is no impediment to his career.
In "The Trinity of Regret," a failed old playwright recalls the three disappointments that set the course of his life.
In "Watching His Language," a CIA analyst whose career spans the Cold War adopts a ridiculous method to stop swearing in the workplace.
And "Women" remembers the lovers with whom a man came of age, if not into maturity. And much more!