children of Light

Children of Light is a collection of 29 short stories that celebrate the quiet and private, often unnoticed vicissitudes of life, a little treasure trove of suburban America in lush, thoughtful, beautiful prose featuring characters who face life-changing challenges, heartbreaks, and uneasy love.

This collection of short stories examines close up and with stark reality the challenges we all face in our complicated modern lives. From the opening story “A Matter of Trust” where a woman meets an itinerate preacher who just might be the devil to “Miracles”, about a devoted parish priest whose heroism costs him everything, and from an American archeologist in Greece who perhaps stumbles onto an ancient spirit in “Blue Monkey Oracle” to an elderly couple facing their mortality in “Orange Juice and Seat Warmers: A Love Story” and a teenage boy traumatized by his mother’s death in “Garrett’s Ghost”, this carefully crafted snatch of tightly-packed stories deals with racism, death, first love, homelessness, gender identity, coming of age, and more issues that contemporary people must face.