Tom and Tina meet on a beach in Golden Shore, a college town in Southern California. The time is 1970, a year after the lunar landing and Kent State shootings. He is a Vietnam veteran working in aerospace but thinking about returning to school for a degree in English, so he can become a writer. Tom is newly sober but still haunted by the demons of Vietnam. Tina is entering her senior year of college and about to begin her student teaching. Her parents and divorced and she is estranged from her playboy father. Tom and Tina meet when her rolled-up towel is tossed like a football from friend to...

HAVING RECEIVED disturbing news from his physician, seventy-year-old Frank Hessel agonizes over how best to tell Sarah, his long-term girlfriend. Not wanting to be a burden, he finally decides to break up with her, to set her free, just when they are finally able to be a true couple after years of limited time together. Before he can act, Frank runs into his childhood friend and rival, Carl, who has moved back to Happy Valley following the death of his wife. Frank is a devout Catholic while Carl was raised Lutheran, and they always enjoyed a friendly rivalry. Carl tells Frank that someone...

Ann Fisher was adopted at birth in the early 1940s. Her mother Pearl was always open and supportive about Ann's desire to search for her birth-parents, but it took years to complete the search. This is Ann's story.

Brief AA poems from things heard at meetings, often 14 word sonnettes and found poems taken directly from the Big Book.

This luminous collection of poems reveals an intimate glimpse of Poet Jim Fisher's journey to death's door. From diagnosis of stage four cancer to emotional reflections of life, Fisher provides readers an intimate view as he journeys to the edge of his last breath. He explores questions of perception, identity, aging, love and death. He brings light to the shadows of facing his death. Included are several heart-felt poems and reminiscences by close friends. In addition to this collection, Fisher is the author of You Can Never Have Too Much Love, Genesis of Love, Granny May Have Been a...