Via Dolorosa

About the Book

The first ten stories are based on a Middle East trip sponsored by Holy Land trust and Tikkun magazine, a solidarity visit with Israeli and Palestinian peace seekers. A group of about twenty, the majority Jewish, traveled to the Holy Land and Palestinian cities and heard reports from both sides on this volatile issue, creating conflict within the group. The other stories maintain a spiritual if not necessarily a religious theme. Fiestas Cristio Negro deals with a religious ceremony in Puerto Bello , Panama. The two Washington stories concern a Jesuit priest who returns from India and meets with his former students, now grown with families of their own.

About the Author

TERRY MCGUIRE has published poems in Avant, Coffee House, the Outsider, and New Millennium Writings. His nonfiction writing has appeared in the Nation, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the American Poetry Review. He teaches at Rowan University and formerly advised the college literary magazine. He also did film and drama reviews (Philadelphia theater) on an FM radio station. A native of Washington, D.C., he has now spent more years in his adopted state, New Jersey. Fiction forthcoming from Wordwrights.