Chicago lawyer falls for exotic dancer and she changes his dull life. Many of her colleagues add remarkable vigor to this tale.

Former dishwasher Jeff Gardener is confined to the one-star rated Crestwood House nursing home after suffering a paralyzing stroke. A nurse's aide named Diane is the one bright spot in his existence. Events in her life, combined with a pastime of his, impact his being and fate in eerie and fantastical ways hard to imagine.

A housepainter is confronted by the sister of his deceased best friend.

Twenty-Seven hard-hitting poems. Some "Morally objectionable in part" for all.

Chet has trouble with mom & her boyfriend as well as with kids in the Housing Project where he lives. Things aren't any easier at school. He's devised two plans of escape but just one will work.

The woman holding a house painter's check for work he completed uncaps childhood memories and surprises him with an odd notion or so.

Twelve pieces of sudden or flash fiction covering many facets of the human condition.

During a lunch of mushroom soup, ham sandwiches and chocolate ice cream, a family discusses a woman in a family way, a barroom and a race track.

Unusual occurrences experienced at the Necks and Noses and Lincoln Downs Racetrack.

Shady shenanigans underway and ashore! The Ship is the USS Ramply, a Norfolk based destroyer operating with the carrier Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea. A Corvette loving Boatswain Mate, a singing Oregonian, a poet in love with a woman he met in Valencia, a Bostonian short-timer and a gambling coup provide the action and suspense.

The Correct Elevation details a hitchhiking trip a man named Denny embarks on after making a wager with a friend from his Navy days. The three people in the car that pick him up on Interstate 84 are an unusual trio to put it mildly. The Driver is a crass, chain-smoking woman. Her male companion is a perfect match. The preteen girl Denny shares the back seat with is a mystery to behold.I am most grateful to The Bosphorus Review, the previous publisher of this story, 7/12/2020.

Itinerary visits: Paris = 10, Ireland = 1, Montreal = 1, Quebec = 2, Turkey = 1, Florence = 2, Pisa = 2, Portugal = 1, Manhattan = 2, Utah = 2, Atlanta = 1, Queens, NY = 1, Rhode Island = 1, Connecticut = 1All poems previously published (See Acknowledgements)Author snapped the two photos that make up the cover he created