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What if an artist only made one known masterpiece? Chopin's spirit haunts a pianist, controlling her career. A great flutist pays the ultimate price for his art. Fugitive Tales is a collection of my short stories seem to develop more in a style closer to Saki or Roland Dahl, who I first encountered in my early teens, than writers like O'Conner, Sarton, Gardner or Nabokov. But it is the latter who give awe to what can be done the words we all use, and give the inspiration to try.

You can read several of these stories here, or read/download the collection, Fugitive Tales, in an Acrobat PDF file. If you don't have Acrobat Reader click on the link and download it free from Adobe. Stories and collection links below.

Sometimes in Shadow, a novel, was scheduled for publication in 1997, but the bankruptcy of the publisher brought the project to a halt. It is now available as a Print on Demand (PoD) book, two clicks away.

Finally, I've included an excerpt from Conspiracy of Silence, an unpublished book by by Mary Adelaide Mendelson with Walton Mendelson: Tender Loving Greed--A Summary. Tender Loving Greed was written by Mary Adelaide Mendelson. This 1974 George Polk Award winning book was a remarkable exposé on long term care and nursing homes. It was relevant then and it is still relevant. It's not fiction, but it is exciting.

	Fugitive Tales	Acrobat PDF file of these four stories plus more, easy to read, download or print out

	The Flute	a great flutist pays the ultimate price for his art
	The Masterpiece	what if an artist only made one know masterpiece?
	Otto Roeper	the biographer and his subject
	The Sacrifice	Chopin's spirit controls a pianist's career

	Tender Loving Greed	a summary of the award winning 1974 exposé on the nursing home industry

From One-Off Press
	Sometimes in Shadow	an epic tale of Good and Evil, of love and loyalty-- . . . of betrayal.
	The Intruder	18 special short stories. Sample story
	Miscellanea	34 color plates exploring the marvelous