Of Elegant Time: 22 Stories

Product Description Profoundly emotional, conceptually acute, yet grounded in the grit and bravery of daily life, these 22 carefully crafted tales probe life's crisis moments and its ordinary hours. Among the stories: an encounter on a mountain trail wakens a veteran's numbed emotions; two French Resistance fighters balance desperate action and shy new love; a 1960s peace activist finds personal and political identity; to protect her baby, a single mother must fight her own terrors; a dying woman seeks a final shred of meaning; a "detained" immigrant child can no longer recall normal life; in 2460, an elegant alien and a human woman too briefly find love; Davey and Danly had, until now, outwitted each pandemic. Review "Exquisite tales, deeply personal tales, moments of both sublime beauty and grave peril in the lives of Friedman's protagonists"--Jeremy Lichtman, Alien Puzzle Boxes: 20 Stories"Damn well writtten. These are sharp stories: they pierce one's heart"--Helen Chuckrow, Interpreting the Bible with Chutzpah"Sometimes fiction can profoundly expose the author's soul. Dancing close to autobiography, these well-written tales burn from the page"--Richard Bunning, Spider World and Other Fictions About the Author Author; editor; former director, international Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience; founding editor, The Open Cell literary review and collective; Pushcart Prize nominations, Soapstone and Centrum residencies, awards and honors from New Millennium Writing, Oregon State Poetry Association, other competitions; short fiction and poetry in over 60 literary journals and anthologies. Two published novels: The Rescuer's Path; The Change Chronicles.