Harvest

This West Coast cornucopia of short stories and poems covers a wide range of nature and human life. In the prize-winning speculative story Guardians, nature reclaims power in a surprising way, while in Fishing Expedition, the cash-strapped narrator uses a lesson learned from bird watching. In Grand Slam the characters discover there's many a slip between brownie and lip, and the hero of A Muse For Michael learns to be careful what he wishes for. The short poems round out this banquet of obsessions, dangerous secrets and unique snapshots of the human condition.