Suteindo Garasu: Stained Glass the third of Kenneth Fenter's books about Japan, continues the stories begun In the first two, (Gaijn Gaijin and Mo Ichido: Once More) but adds a new dimension. The Fenter family re-enters life in the United States, but life has changed. Although their readjustment seems smooth, Fenter himself has some unfinished business in Japan, both practical and emotional. During the next three years he attempts to set up a business, making stained glass windows and lamps, which would allow him to move back and forth between two cultures. The book is an examination of the...

Some of the first stories in this anthology sent as Christmas cards or published as little chapbooks for the family and close friends. Early stories were inspired by letters from my mother while she and Dad were in Texas building a house. Other stories were inspired by calls in the night to come rescue opossums from a friend's backyard or a ferret from her woodpile. One was based on a cat that showed up in our garage one day and disappeared on the exact same day a year later. During that year, she never once ventured outside the house, even though she had every opportunity to do so. Through...

It is March and Spring has arrived at the Nagasaki Peninsula. Keiko and Charlie are settling into their three month old marriage after a 23 year interruption of their original plan to marry when they were attending college. It is now 1978. They had planned to marry in 1956 but fate had separated them. Reconnected and given a second chance, they are working together. Charlie is a gifted artist, a former high school art teacher. Keiko is a reknown musician and teacher of the okoto. As the novel opens, she has retired from teaching so that she can devote full time to composing and planning a...

This novel is about working off the left and right side of the brain. It is also about Platonic Love. It employs an ancient literary device, the Greek Chorus. The chorus in this case are the ravens and crows that proliferate both the Northwest as well as well as the lower 48 states. The Corvid family of birds are known to have the highest intelligence of all non-human life with the ability to replicate human speech and use human phrases appropriately. They have an extensive vocabulary, assist each other, have a complex social order, mate for life, and have been observed to destroy unfaithful...