The Life Within Us: Stories

Our inner lives can be exultant…that's the good news. Muster your courage and find out more. The unconscious is unruly, and the stories it constructs are more unruly still. In writing "The Life Within Us," I have allowed it free rein. Hence these stories careen wildly: They veer from a confrontation at the Stella Maris Hotel in Trieste to a surreal encounter with a seductive cyber-waif. We get a look at the mysterious Widow Fulsomgame and Jaap van Holde’s fateful encounter with destiny while sailing the Flying Dutchman. Holly Fennell talks about her friend Andras Landau, who escaped during the Hungarian Revolution to self-exile in Miami. Curious to meet a guy who thinks "Beethoven’s Choral" Fantasy is the foothills of grandeur? Voices, dozens of them, cavort with the muse and frolic with a warlock in the dark brew of the unconscious.