Fables for the modern age| Contents Whirlwind Dreamer Flugelhorn The Green Bear Shanghaied Altimeter The Past Chef Magda Heliotrope Dishabille Ladder The Welcome Typewriter Cricket "In the Fullness of Time" A Reincarnation Missing Person Panama Pilgrim Seasons Tomfoolery Antelope School Shoe Time Poem Varlet Tourniquet The Little Pastor Back From Exile Point of No Return Advice Bluestocking Skydiver 27 and 1/2 A Brace of Firearms Who I Am Three Parade Mudflats Nepenthe Coffee The Box The One True Believer A Reunion On the Bridge Rock Born in England Bird of Paradise A Meeting Flight Love Poem The Key Watson 5 Shuteye A Mystery Trust Me Statistics To Be Part of a House Fortuitous Strictly Speaking |

David Friedman is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University. He lives in New York City.