48 Poems, two short stories and one disquisition with reproductions from the author's handwritten manuscript, two full-color and two monochrome reproductions of photographs by the author, and a panoramic photo image extending to front and back covers.

Charley Ridgway is a former US Army officer turned resort bartender on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Ridgway is bored by the seeming lack of intellectual and creative pursuits in the dream vacation community. One night at the bar, he and fellow bartender Bill Hersey meet Clarissa Daniels. As Ridgway flirts with the former B-Movie actress, a young thief attempts to rob the bar's cash register. Ridgway chases him across the resort and fights him, holding his own because of his army training, but the hoodlum is similarly skilled and escapes. The next day Ridgway learns Hersey was jumped by...

Originally published over one hundred years ago by young newspaper editor William Elbridge Cowles of Minnesota's Saint Peter Journal, THE STORY OF REDMANSHIP and the Sons of Liberty offers today's readers amazing glimpses into the Revolutionary history of America's British Colonies while describing "The Patriotic Origin and Beautiful Teachings of the Improved Order of Red Men." Who were these Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty who secretly met in Boston's Green Dragon tavern? "Bound together in defense of Equality before the law," they disguised themselves as Mohawks to carry out the destruction...

Deep in trance during a hypnotherapy session, Edward Peterson spontaneously regresses to an alternate life experience memory and begins speaking an unknown language. This leads Dr. Alan Arthur Winston to help his patient uncover a hidden realm where past, present and future exist as one, and each new life potentiality is chosen from one incarnation to another. In the most stunning revelation of all, Peterson enters and describes in detail a life experience which takes place several centuries in our future, when tens of thousands of families live in huge geosynchronous satellites, estranged...

Ellen sat waiting in the Buick while Fr. Dean Finn checked in at the motel office. He always registered them as Mr. and Mrs. George Adams of Syracuse, New York. There was no objection to a couple without luggage taking a room for a couple of hours at the Hit-the-Sack. The desk clerk, a poorly-shaven, perpetually smirking man of thirty-five lewd years, had managed, in the midst of an ambiance of sexuality which should have inoculated him against disgust, to cultivate a urinal of a mind. People came to his office thinking of their affair as a matter of love or fun or nature or bawdry or even...

A young couple finds a summer rental on a charming block of brownstones in Manhattan. In the back court, the fences have been taken down and the long, narrow patches of green have been turned into a common garden. Robin and Paul don't notice at first that now every back door opens into every other back door. And it takes them much longer to realize that the block association is not a civic but a sexual organization. * * * HE WOKE HER. A light blanket lay across her shoulders. He had turned on a soft light and put on a record. Outside, in the common garden, it was still raining. She could see...

A Cahuilla woman firmly rooted in her Native American heritage, Snowbird Jones is a UCLA graduate with majors in forensics and criminology. On the staff of the Santa Barbara Police Department, Sgt. Jones investigates the disappearance of a young college girl and learns there are 130 unsolved missing persons cases in California which have occurred within two miles of the Pacific Coast Highway between Mexico and the Oregon border. Jones becomes lead officer in a statewide police task force to learn the details of these mysterious disappearances. Yet there are no details-no sightings, no phone...

A SOLID WALL OF FIRE hundreds of feet high rages toward your home, turning each dry leaf, twig and blade of grass into a roaring blaze so hot that everything in its path literally explodes into flame Within moments your property is engulfed and destroyed by a horrific inferno in which the very air seems to be burning. This scenario is not something out of a summer blockbuster movie. It is a situation that is all too real, all too terrifying, and is repeated worldwide many hundreds of times every year as raging wildfires in urban wildland areas destroy property and shatter lives. Yet always,...

VIDEO DAYS begins in 1969 when video technology was still virtually unknown to the public. A portable video camera was an oddity. The only people who had them were cops, hippies, and conceptual artist Nam June Paik, who recorded the Pope's visit to New York in 1965 using one. The cops recorded the faces of hippies at events and political actions and the hippies loved to shoot videos of the cops shooting video of them. "When I would overhear the word 'video' being spoken on the street or in a restaurant somewhere," says author Nancy Cain, "I would assume people were talking about me. It was...