These letters satirize the corruption practiced by a long time Senator. A young lawyer named Francois de Ravage has accepted Senator Pontificus as his mentor and plans, with the Senator's instruction and influence, to enter the Congress. The vote of the people appears to bear little weight in the process. The invisible author has discovered these letters bundled in a discarded safe in a neighboring junk yard where he went in search of a vintage steering wheel. The Senator makes clear his duplicity and his hope that his protege will follow his steps."

"Even if someone else had written these tales, they are funny" says the author. They are a throwback to the days of the Guffy first grade primer and Kipling's Just So tales. They are completely readable for new readers and for bed-time stories. A good example is The Fly Who Loved To Party. Each story finished with a clear statement of the moral of the tale.

These homilies are the result both of experience and inspiration and in places one or two may appear to exhibit the touch of God. They give gist for thought and supply that small measure of guidance, correction or understanding that every person needs from time to time. They are secular although they carry often the spirit of a religious conviction. In the media and from the pulpit, the lessons are most often hortatory, controversial or opinionated and far from "fair and balanced." Once can dip into these homilies and find, if not some comfort at least wit and common sense. Many fall into...

This story is not an historical account. It does not try to define any particular event except the panopoly event of gold prospecting. The story presents the violence, the adventure, the risks of the early West. Wild dogs did exist. Indian memorialization of their sacred burial sites is a reality that expanding modern civilization continues to encounter.

These stories range from fantasy to hard reality, from magic to the doctrine of human endeavor that escapes the box of reason. He has set out in these stories to try the imagination of the reader. A closer look at the text will disclose a varied rhythm of structure and a bold use of the English language. These stories also reveal about Miller's writing the close attention to details of human behavior and almost surreptitious insight into motivation. For they are the unusual conceptions of a brilliant literary mind steeped in the ways of ordinary people's lives.