"Beerman and Sodaman" are the best of friends. They travel different roads but they do it together. Beerman struggles along the confused common road of the modern world view. Sodaman travels a higher road-a narrow path toward a narrow gate. Every Friday night they celebrate their friendship at Arnold's Pub over a beer and a soda.

Beerman and Sodaman" have this in common-the love of stories. Presented here are a collection of sixteen far ranging short stories wonderfully and simply crafted together revealing a seventeenth story of its own; a story that shares the meaning and value of true...