SURRENDER and other stories
(published March 2, 2022 by Kniemst Press)
This is my second book of true stories collected during travels to many destinations, with different cultures and languages. They remain memories of specific events by personal connections, letters, or stories told spanning generations of ordinary people in different parts of the world, sometimes in ordinary and sometimes in extraordinary circumstances – birth, death, and life in-between over generations.
Stories about the dispossessed or never possessed, the not-first-world countries, the spurned, returned, the almost failed, forgotten, abandoned, misunderstood, those lost in war and perestroika, those who gave up and those who did not give up. And when written in the first person, it is just to tell the story.
In everyone's life, no matter how high or low, there is a story to tell.
SURRENDER and other stories
Jim, Nell, and Kate
Charming
The Last Shot Fired in Anger
Tecumseh
Chloé and the Little Mermaid
The New Foundation
Ash Wednesday
A Walk at Mepkin
Surrender
The Caretaker's Lament
The Way to Luzon
The Indians
The Fat Man and D-Day
The Playing Field
The Last Concert of Arthur Rubinstein
The Migrants
There is Something I Want to Tell You
The Killings
The Writer (shortlisted for Panel Magazine's 2020 Ruritania Prize)
Russian Soldiers
Harold T. Clark Courts