Jim Steinberg writes stories to scratch the itches that rise up from within him, to answer the impulses that ask him to visit them and lay them in places of greater repose. When these impulses arise, he finds himself at the beginnings of trails that he knows he will follow without a plan, with no thoughts of synopsis, plot, timeline, or character description. He jumps right in and finds the story, making each a discovery for him, the first reader. Jim is the author of a second collection of stories, Last Night At The Vista Cafe, and a novel, Boundaries, and has begun work on his second novel,