This collection features stories about love fulfilled and unfulfilled, about things that are visible in the everyday world and values that are perceptible only at exceptional moments. The narration moves from apparent realism to other genres, such as crime fiction, the thriller, and erotic prose. Memories, intimations, and premonitions are infused in these stories with a tranquility that accepts what fate brings, even when, as in the stories "Pockets Full of Stones "or "Nosedive," efforts are made to change it. Lengold uses eroticism as a natural ingredient of human life, as an integrated...