NINE OVER PAR is Tim Miller's second collection of golf-themed stories and includes the novella "The Links Lighter." Gene Santos always dreamed of a life in Comedy. He lives a normal life with normal regrets, until a fateful night at the Twin Oaks Monday Night Men's Golf League when he suffers a traumatic brain injury. In his mind, he's reliving his lost youth and doing stand-up comedy, but in reality he's setting golf courses on fire. At his side is the ghost of Phineas Gage, neuroscience...

Nine stories, sprawled out like nine holes. Always the same, but always different. As with the temperature, wind, and visibility, the leaves and the grass. So it is with the golfer, the reader. Young and old. Happy and sad. Looking forward, looking back... nine chances. Places to seek, alone or together, with friends, family, ghosts and strangers. Success and failure. Love and loneliness. Birdies and bogeys, lies and truth, but always ourselves.What if Jesus Christ showed up for a ...