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A collection of short stories that form a story cycle of Gulf Coast residents and expatriates engaged in the struggle to maintain a cultural identity in a realm of change. For the author, one of the advantages of -being southern- is luxuriating in complex ambiguity, time shifting at will, nonlinear thought, love of the absurd (which it often seems to be the way of life), nostalgia, and an opposition to manufactured realms of reality found in modernist fiction. This collection is southern, an organic unit, a piece of string. The first story is one end and the last is the other. The bits in the...

A collection of 13 short stories that form a story cycle of seven individuals, who are connected by their Gulf Coast origins. While the stories of Cocobolo are intended to be read in sequence, each building thematically on the previous, they also stand alone and provide the reader time to linger on character and description. That is pretty much the way life moves on the Gulf Coast. Read them the way life is lived on the southern coast. Languidly and savoring the details.

A narrative of the lives and interactions of members of a Texas university ground crew. The narrative is presented in the form of two plays.

The three plays forming the French Defense trilogy, center on the Paul Morphy Chess Club of New Orleans and a club member's psychotic breakdown - a modern ghost story. Playing serious chess, of course, provides an excellent metaphorical vehicle for depicting Player's struggle. However there are other issues explored in these plays than that of having a breakdown in New Orleans. The other characters in the French Defense have their own critical and important narrative arcs to tread. Weakness and strength of human character through the abstract emotions of love, compassion, failure, grief, and...