"These 52 poems are fictionalized attempts to accept my existence in the world. They range from dealing with outrage over our lust to make war through regret at botched relationships, to love for Noreen--my wife of 18 years--to the underlying belief that a higher power loves me."--Michael Scofield.

As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. "The aggression that dominates American life today," says author Michael Scofield, "goads them into brandishing their dark sides." Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron's not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor Valdez. High-tech writer Manny Barnes falsely promises his fiancee to give up in-your-face activism. CPA...

The second novel in Scofield's Santa Fe trilogy explores the emptiness of love under false pretenses. As mishaps pile up, the increasingly frantic dance forces everyone to abandon compromise in the hope of a fresh start.

As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. "The aggression that dominates American life today," says author Michael Scofield, "goads them into brandishing their dark sides." Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron's not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor Valdez. High-tech writer Manny Barnes falsely promises his fiancee to give up in-your-face activism. CPA...

Former husband-and-wife hedge-fund managers work an Internet scam, inviting patrons to spend a weekend improving their sex techniques-unaware that spy cams track their every bounce and moan. While the patrons set themselves up for blackmail, Raven, the sex facilitator, falls in love with the co-owners husband. They plot to poison his wife even as the wife decides to kill them. Meanwhile, Flasher Cobb and his girlfriend, camped in a refuge near Kats Harbor for the Homeless, supply the sex hacienda with cocaine. A group of the homeless, led by a composer, a retired "New York Times" reporter,...

The arrangement of the eighty-one poems inside "Circus Americana" creates a story arc. The first two sections-"Not Getting Along" and "Bewilderment"-set the stage for the third section, "Burned Out." The last two sections, "Friends" and "I Love You," share incitements for enjoying more of the show. For you, my reader, I wish a sense of enlightenment (however false, however fleeting) and a little fun.

Yale University graduate Michael Scofield received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. In 2006, Sunstone Press published "Whirling Backward into the World," his second...

This collection of short-shorts ("flash" fiction, "sudden" fiction) for those who crave a rush but have scant time to read is also a handbook for scriptwriters. In here you'll find septuagenarians on a first date, a reluctant nymphomaniac, a college student confronting a runaway wife's derringer, a prodigal son helping his mother buy vegetables, a woman going mad learning magic tricks-and on and on. Yale University graduate Michael Scofield received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. Sunstone Press has published two collections of poetry, "Whirling Backward into the...