Stories HEARD, LIVED, IMAGINED.
Stories include: 1) The Red Wind 1 2) Hotel Pischa 11 3) Sundial 12 4) Pool Cleaner in the Yucatan 15 5) Up in Smoke 23 6) Optimistic Freshman 27 7) Yeah, I Killed my Girlfriend 29 8) 4\' 33" 32 9) Fringe Locations 34 10) Draft Dodger 57 11) A Walk-through Time and Snow 55 12) Allen Ginsberg at the Atlantis 58 13) Stromboli 66 14) 7 Trains, 7 Planes: A Blessing 73 15) Water 81 16) We Met at the Met 81 17) Thumbing Down the Road 93.
They are astute vignettes of the human condition, encompassing loneliness, socio-political injustices, sickness, sorrow, death, love, companionship, redemption, succumbing, and overcoming.
Each story reflects, on some level, the indomitable striving of the human spirit, in both grand and small ways.
Together the Stories traverse frontiers and probe the deeper levels of what it means to be human in this wonderfully variegated world of ours.
The autobiographical accounts in Part Two are all true, save for some slight creative deviations.
Though fictional, many of the Stories in Part One are based on True events.
Fringe Locations is a collection of 17 distinctly diverse tales from three continents and decidedly contrasting settings, which bring to life a wide variety of characters from all walks of life: from a girl caught in a sand storm in South Africa\'s interior, a boy who shot his girlfriend, an environmentalist who refused to be silenced, a lawyer who flew to the Yucatan to find peace of mind, to Stories from Müller\'s life: meeting the poet Allen Ginsburg, befriending a concentration camp survivor, going on a pilgrimage to the active volcano Stromboli in Italy, and his multifarious hitchhiking adventures over a ten year period.
Stories HEARD, LIVED, IMAGINED
