Good Looking Bloke and Other Stories

In August, 2008, I discovered two boxes of old letters in the basement of our house in Vermont, letters I received and saved between the ages of 18 and 29. For reasons I can't explain, these crinkly typed and written pages ignited in me a creative frenzy. I resurrected and rewrote four old short stories and over the next eight months created seven new ones. Here they are. Have I a favorite? I like them all, but it struck me in my final run-through for this volume that there was only one story, MY FRIEND, in which I did not change a single word. I had help. Suggestions and criticism from a neighbor, Lynne Irving, published poetess Mary Jane Dickerson and my wife, Priscilla, aided immensely. Enjoy.