21 Stories

About the Book

The twenty-one stories in this collection are concerned with ordinary people in extraordinary situations: a child witnesses a suicide; a woman believes she possesses supernatural powers; a physicist unknowingly destroys his forty-year marriage. Set in locales as varied as Paris, the Algarve coast and Antofogasta, Chile, as well as suburban New Jersey and rural Pennsylvania, these stories, written with style and skill, reveal a perceptive awareness of human nature.

About the Author

Edward Wahl was born in 1922 in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a physician and a teacher. He has been a hot-dog salesman, library gofer, sheet metal worker, labor organizer, speechwriter, and an industrial sales executive. He has written more than seventy-five short stories, a novel as yet unpublished, and a play. He lives in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, with the poet, Florence Miller.