"Addressing a consistent set of themes most revolving around characters who are in conflict with one another based on differences in culture, age, or personality The Ice Child offers eleven moving short stories by author Leon Arden. The collection introduces a wide cast of characters and scenarios. A husband and wife, touring Mexico, are confronted while on horseback, by savage bandits; a young man tries to rescue his mother from his father s obsession, which is filling their apartment with more books than it can hold; a comic drama between two lovers is waged solely through messages left on...