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 a girlfriend's fear of lizards end up like this?
And there you have a sneak peek at part of "A Play and Four Short Stories", a collection of a writer's raggedy stories and a whimsical play featuring a young man who has aspirations to perform on the stage on Broadway in the city of New York.
Or an entire story takes place in an instant during a drive to a favorite duck hunting spot or one that interferes with a man's effort to repair cracks in plaster n an old house.
Tales of fear, of calm determination, of a pair of boots assisting in marital fidelity. A potpourri of emotions opens for you in "A Play and Four Short Stories."