In the small, friendly Oregon town of Lone Oak, seemingly untouched by time and the modern world, a fundamentalist minister thinks the town's secular activities have summoned the pale horse of the apocalypse.Believing he's been called to become the town's savior, Reverend David Phillips strikes out at the scantily clad girls at track meets, the blasphemous talk among the town's eccentric cronies in the barber shop and gas station, and the growing population of Latinos, among whom he sees a teenage boy Jesus Martinez as the Antichrist.The minister, empowered by his religious beliefs, is a...

In 1848 Nathaniel Hawthorne is married and living in Salem, Massachusetts, a stone's throw from where the alleged witches were hanged in 1692. He is burdened with guilt over his ancestor's involvement in their trial, and bored with the stultifying work in the Custom House. Unable to write anything of significance, he is bitter and depressed. Susan Pryor, a young maid in a wealthy Salem household, aspires to become more than just a maid. Though she finds much pleasure in her fellow maid, with whom she sleeps, and in preparing for fine dinners and parties, she and her friend are still just...

In the small, friendly Oregon town of Lone Oak, seemingly untouched by time and the modern world, a fundamentalist minister thinks the town's secular activities have summoned the pale horse of the apocalypse.Believing he's been called to become the town's savior, Reverend David Phillips strikes out at the scantily clad girls at track meets, the blasphemous talk among the town's eccentric cronies in the barber shop and gas station, and the growing population of Latinos, among whom he sees a teenage boy Jesus Martinez as the Antichrist.The minister, empowered by his religious beliefs, is a...

Buffalo & Rochelle is the intersection where the author lost his only son where so many stories died and so many others began. At the heart of this collection, and introducing it, is the title story of two young men and choices and fate and what might have been and what won't ever be, ever again. Meeting here at these crossroads are tales tall and short stories of ordinary people living extraordinary moments stopping here, starting here, going who knows where together or going nowhere alone. With imagination and grace and wit and his raconteur grandfather's way with a story, George Evans...

Buffalo & Rochelle is the intersection where the author lost his only son where so many stories died and so many others began. At the heart of this collection, and introducing it, is the title story of two young men and choices and fate and what might have been and what won't ever be, ever again. Meeting here at these crossroads are tales tall and short stories of ordinary people living extraordinary moments stopping here, starting here, going who knows where together or going nowhere alone. With imagination and grace and wit and his raconteur grandfather's way with a story, George Evans...

Young Bernadine Powers returns home from vigorous play in the park one summer day and senses something is wrong, but she can't imagine what. Her parents look the same, but they don't act the same. Once strong believers in exercise and healthy eating, they're now giving the opposite advice.

Are her parents sick? Is it the hot weather? Why has everything in her life become so confusing and strange?

Something is indeed wrong, and Bernie must discover what it is. To do so requires visiting dangerous places and learning from shadows and haunting visitors about what she must do to save her...