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In 1968, the hottest day of the year turns tragic for a sixteen-year-old boy, forever shaping how he sees himself. A little girl disappears on her fifth birthday from a laundromat across the street from a funeral home. A man kills himself by blowing up a high-tech TV in 2005. A late-night drive to confess his unrequited love leads another man to a powerful transformation. These four snapshots are among the eight stories composing this collection from newcomer Lawrence Benson. Mad World takes a hard, often sardonic, look at contemporary issues such as depression, racism, sexual abuse, drug...

What is there to know about a poem except that the experience of a poem should press on the most local bodies (thus stories) to the most universal narratives like time, family, history, and freedom. The poems in "Black Lemonade: Poems" open up to notions of choice and vulnerability in the face of seemingly no choice and impenetrability. They seek out embedded narratives, play on the page and screen with words and the infinite metaphors that words are, in the presumed minds of infinite and eternal readers. This collection takes a stand, asserts the inevitability of choice in the face of the...

Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all but the last chapter remaining to be started. He had been preparing to do a memoir, on and off, for many years, but only in the late 1990s, as declining health caused him to cut back on other commitments, did he devote a large part of his energies to getting the job done. To help complete this project, he engaged me-Ken Alnwick-a retired Air Force pilot and defense analyst, and my associate, Larry Benson, a recently retired Air Force historian....