“Sweet Willie Gold Has the Blues”
After a car accident, William Goldman, a nice middle aged married man wakes from a coma to find that he is a musical savant, able to play note for note every blues harmonica song he has ever heard. Is his newfound ability a blessing or a burden? Music or marriage, family or fame, he struggles to answer what he really wants out of his life.
“Just You Wait Just You Wait”, a contemporary, literary novella, tells the story of Jasmine Whittow, an intelligent young woman and an only child growing up in privileged familial circumstances. Eventually she meets and lives with Pietro, an Italian moving to London to join her there, she learning how easily life, even one of her own choosing, may lead many astray, before falling in love with someone else she meets in Cornwall.
“The Day the Sun Stopped”
Christine wakes to find herself on a street lined with houses, all identical. Even more disconcerting, she discovers that there' s a family that claims to be Christine' s, a family with their own secrets.
Bit by bit, Christine remembers her past life, and wonders if she made a terrible mistake. The question is: is it even possible to return? And what would returning home mean?
“Filial Sojourn”
Summoned by a phone call from a man telling him his long-estranged father is in his last days, Rutherford McAndrew drives deep into the upstate boondocks to see him before the end. Instead of impending death, he finds his father the subject of an unsettling clinical experiment and himself drawn in as an unwilling participant. As he insidiously becomes entangled in the dark intentions of the strange psychiatric program, his opportunities to leave diminish.
