Life is more like a river than a road. It twists and turns and takes us places we sometimes ought not to go. But sometimes, the waters of our lives fetch us up on a sandbar, where we can rest for the next step in our journey.

More Like A River is a collection of short stories, written and perfected over the years. Twenty-five stories await you, some of which are: December Blessing, a story in which a woman is led to a derelict tenement by a strange child; Kansas, 1939, a dust bowl story; Random Acts, where a woman waits in restaurants for her prey; Tom's Own Little World, in which a microbiologist discovers a miniature world that makes no sense; The Old Woman, a love story; Mr. O'Sullivan's Birds, in which two children learn a valuable lesson; Uncle Harold, a quirky mystery; The Prodigal Daughter, where a woman learns that in spite of what Thomas Wolfe said, you can go home again; and One Day in Camden, Maine, a slice of life vignette of old folks and true love. Adult fiction. (Mostly. There is one story in this collection that details my time in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico that is true.