This compact but engaging historical novel takes one to Japan right after WWII when MacArthur was a star. Our typist protagonist rises quickly as he can type 95 WPM which connects him to MacArthur's personal life and an interesting connection to his son. Post wartime Japan is a bleak place, but...
In this extraordinary collection, Michael Knight delivers ten tales of ordinary people whose attempts at human connection often result in false starts, misunderstandings, or heavy silence. In "Now You See Her, " a widower learns that he and his teenage son share the same clandestine activity of s...
Though he was 99 percent certain that the house was empty (he’d watched the owners leave himself), he paused a moment just across the threshold, listened carefully, heard nothing. Satisfied, he padded through an archway into the dining room, where he found a chest of silverware and emptied its co...
With every pounding heartbeat as the landscape was illuminated for a brief flash they saw their captain’s silhouette in the glow. He did not look back. His eyes were wet and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as he raised his hands to his bubble-helmet. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar! His...