This is the story of a wise, old trout, a railroad brakeman, and a famous maestro who share a magical world one evening as they listen to the sound and feel the power of the music of life."The 'Historic...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

How do you explain to your girlfriend why you stood her up for a movie date? Especially when you had stood her up previously. Your solution, hinted at is unusual.Of course, if you and two fellow college...

A political administer lives in the realm of power. He lives in the here and now working to satisfy his need to dominate or prey upon those beneath him. He interprets or fabricates the past and the future...

Charlie's Sportsmen's Club is a long, two-story building on skid-row, housing a long bar, a poker room, a Chinese cafe, and a hotel across the top floor. Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics,...

World War II ended with a big bang that made America King of the World, and the economy boomed. Those involved in civil defense and who profit by fear promoted the idea that Communism was the threat now,...

The streets are alive with Black Lives Matter. The newscasters and pundits tell us that maybe this time it will make a difference; that equality will yet arrive in America.Does White Power agree?This...

Many thousands of years ago, our ancestors walked north out of Africa, looking for a place to live. Some went west, some went east, and some went farther north and west and east and south again. They...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

During Jack London's last years in grammar school, he lived in West Oakland, the working-class district, which bordered the bay and the estuary. He frequented the water front, did odd jobs, delivered...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

Leif has left Dunsmuir to attend college. On his first return home he reunites with his friends and they once again engage in the activities of swimming and hunting, even though Leif now has a girlfriend,...

Time is a human idea. We think that it's a constant thing and that we live in the present.In our imagination, the present is all there is of time. We are held in the present. We look to the future and...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

An older gentleman meets a future rocket pilot and tell him the secret to the good grades needed to reach his goal.

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

The California Gold Rush of 1849 attracted hordes eager to seek their fortune. They came with all the money they could raise to pursue their dreams of striking it rich. Right behind them, came the merchants,...

The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends...

Melanie displays a diaphanous negligee, in peach, to an elderly, nattily-dressed gentleman who purchases it for his future daughter-in-law. But on this rainy day that event may or may not have been real...

John the Dreamer, college freshman in 1949, is having a nightmare. He knows it will change. He wakes as King John in the year 4732 in a city-state under siege. He learns this is not his first prophetic...

The Dude, believing himself a novelist, meets a lady who takes him to a haiku class. He writes one haiku after another, he but never understands the meaning or purpose of a haiku. The teacher becomes...

One would believe the young man was so suffocated with loneliness that he was hallucinating but he would have to wait until the next day to discover how a tree could talk.And lizard's blood? How could...