A Place of Darkness and Other Stories

Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone.
It's taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life.
Everything seems to be under control until a strange telephone message and envelope set in motion a series of events that could once again destabilize Vigo's fragile mental equilibrium.
Will Vigo overcome this final, life-threatening challenge, or is his world about to unravel?

and Other Stories

In No Harm, No Foul what appears to be a harmless prank has unforeseen consequences. The Characters Among Us are not always what we expect them to be. When a writer struggles to bring his story to a conclusion, he discovers that this time, completing it will take More Than Words. In The Not So Innocence of Youth, a helpful schoolteacher is taken advantage of by a less than innocent student. When Matthew receives A Gift from Beyond, he realizes that there's more to love and happiness then our mortal existence. In The Last Fare a cab driver learns a valuable lesson about what's important in life during his last pickup of the day.