author - "Barry Rachin"
In an increasingly hedonistic universe, Kirsten Hazelton clings to her Catholic faith. But can the hospital discharge planner hold her own when Dr. Wong, an osteopath at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, confronts her with his own extreme beliefs?
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wild Life Sanctuary, is going to show seventeen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Fire Finder, all six species of regional ferns and something miraculous he never bargain for.
Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, is discovering that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.
Jerome Spellman, the simple schizophrenic in Grace's eleventh grade class, acts like an extra in a B-rated horror flick - Night of the Living Dead. Grace prays for a miracle, while Dr. Rosen, the school psychologist counsels, “Think positive but plan for the worse.”
Mavis Calhoun, who works at the Shop Rite Supermarket, believes that she and Harry Wong Smith are twin souls. She shared this intimation with the teenager recently in a mad gush of esoterica and Harry, too smitten with her infuriating loveliness, could hardly disagree.
According to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sake was the world created,’ and in the left: ‘I am dust and ashes.’
Seventeen year-old Fanny Jackson, who works aisle three at the ShopRite market, wants to become a twenty-first century mystic – a supermarket Sadhu.
Laurel Evers wants to travel back a hundred years to a more bucolic existence.
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, struck out on both counts.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart. When business is slow, she reads the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!
In an increasingly hedonistic universe, Kirsten Hazelton clings to her Catholic faith. But can the hospital discharge planner hold her own when Dr. Wong, an osteopath at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, confronts her with his own extreme beliefs?
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wild Life Sanctuary, is going to show seventeen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Fire Finder, all six species of regional ferns and something miraculous he never bargain for.
Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, is discovering that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.
Jerome Spellman, the simple schizophrenic in Grace's eleventh grade class, acts like an extra in a B-rated horror flick - Night of the Living Dead. Grace prays for a miracle, while Dr. Rosen, the school psychologist counsels, “Think positive but plan for the worse.”
Mavis Calhoun, who works at the Shop Rite Supermarket, believes that she and Harry Wong Smith are twin souls. She shared this intimation with the teenager recently in a mad gush of esoterica and Harry, too smitten with her infuriating loveliness, could hardly disagree.
According to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sake was the world created,’ and in the left: ‘I am dust and ashes.’
Seventeen year-old Fanny Jackson, who works aisle three at the ShopRite market, wants to become a twenty-first century mystic – a supermarket Sadhu.
Laurel Evers wants to travel back a hundred years to a more bucolic existence.
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, struck out on both counts.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart. When business is slow, she reads the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!