Love Stories

About the Book

LOVE STORIES is about love at all ages, from the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman, to the sentimental journey of an old man, whose wife has recently died, to find the love he left behind him in war-torn England after World War II to return to the States.

In DIANNE, the narrator finds himself obsessing over a beautiful woman he has seen on a train. It intensifies when she accidentally bumps into him on the steps of the New York Public Library a few weeks later. Frightened, not sure he isn't getting into something that is more than he can handle, he accepts her invitation to accompany her to a penthouse party on New Years eve. The ensuing relationship, filled as it is with beauty and tenderness, leaves him scarred and shaken when Dianne's own obsession, the mysterious world-traveler Charlie, returns to claim her.

About the Author

Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels Dust Be My Destiny (thebookden.com), The House on Huntington Hill (Xlibris.com), and The Chrysanthemum Garden (iUniverse.com), the drama The Stargazers (iUniverse.com), and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making (iUniverse.com). His articles have appeared in trade and science journals, and his short stories in Prairie Schooner, New-Story, The Maryland Review, Ohio Short Fiction, and other literary journals and anthologies. In addition, he has completed three full-length plays, two short novels, Home by Seven (which won a novel contest run by Epicenter Press) and Landscape with Figures (which placed eighth in a novel contest run by The National Writers Club), and a collection of shorter fiction called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Stories of Love and Lust. He is currently researching another play and writing a short novel called Don't Shoot--I'm Not the Enemy. .