Starlight

It is said that there are 100 billion stars just in the Milky Way, our own little corner of the Universe. This decrees that there is a star for every soul, living, passed, yet to be. In STARLIGHT, there is an unlikely crossing of paths; those of Stella, a vibrant young child, and Lawrence, an elderly recluse. The ensuing events have a profound effect on both lives. In MY BREAKFAST WITH MABEL, two people from disparate social worlds meet in an awkward encounter, but share a fleeting glimpse of their common humanity. MY THREE CENTURIES utilizes an old man's carefully prepared presentation on his 101st birthday to query into the phenomenon of aging, with its subtle slippage of poise, personhood, belonging... APPLES, ROSES AND THYME, a story spanning a lifetime, shadows the progress of Theo through childhood, into manhood, up into his twilight years. Young Theo is confused; he knows only that he is 'different'. His quest to find self is guided by the love and support of a single mother and three maternal aunts. DAHLIA is a stark reflection of that most immobilizing of human emotions, fear. THREE-HAND CANASTA is an occurrence of a single day. It presents a cast of four unremarkable people whose daily challenge is to keep on trying. In A DRIFTER'S TALE an unnamed protagonist relates an unforgettable event that occurred when he was just ten years of age. He puzzles at how an episode in the formative years can so affect one's ultimate outcome. The GREAT AUGUST WAGON RACE, set in an earlier time, perhaps to distance us from a sinister side of our human nature, makes a dystopian foray into the Scapegoat Theory.