In The Venice Apartment and Other Stories, a painter, a singer and a student read the soul level of a distant self, other people and times in music, art, and architecture centuries old. A mother and son break with their past, held in the vial of an ancient amulet, and broken figures, long dead, leave the memory of loss and desire in old places of residence, where new occupants and travelers passing through learn lessons about power, possession and freedom. Love, death and art are intimately bound up together in this collection of metaphysical love stories that capture the elusive element in...

In The Venice Apartment and Other Stories, a painter, a singer and a student read the soul level of a distant self, other people and times in music, art, and architecture centuries old. A mother and son break with their past, held in the vial of an ancient amulet, and broken figures, long dead, leave the memory of loss and desire in old places of residence, where new occupants and travelers passing through learn lessons about power, possession and freedom. Love, death and art are intimately bound up together in this collection of metaphysical love stories that capture the elusive element in...

"Airspeed Oxford" is a novel about a translator for the secret service, Joan Yu, a young woman of Chinese, English and French descent, raised in England and educated at Oxford. After her father's death, Joan receives a memory box that includes an early formula for invisibility and buried plans for a secret aircraft, designed during WWII. This novel follows Joan's journey quest to develop a patent for invisibility and a new Airspeed Oxford, with the help of a few friends: a professor, a co-agent and a scientist living in the desert. Along the way, Joan meets a long lost aunt, confronts death,...