The biblical preacher tells us that there is a season for everything, but each person is left to learn from experience how to discern the meaning of his/her seasons.

Richard Corley Massey's collection of four short stories and one novella exemplifies this well. Although the tales that make up "There Is a Season" vary greatly-historical, military, Southern, biblical-each of the characters portrayed is at a crossroads, challenged either to make a choice or adapt to the choices made by others. Which paths will they follow-and will they like who they turn out to be in the end? In "The...