Sixes and Eights

Thou shalt not kill. Neither shalt thou steal. These rules to live by are violated in some degree in all the stories in this collection: ';Bring Me the Head of Kathleen Sullivan' relates the murder of a prominent Texas citizen. ';Dominoes,' delicately positioned and when pressed into movement to nudge into the next one and that one into the next, results in a jumbled heap. In ';Sad Songs,' the narrator is a songwriter-guitar player marked by hard work and hard times; and betrayal and lost love. ';The Taking of Kaitlyn Peck' is the case of a young girl abducted on the way from school to her upscale neighborhood home. ';Storm Clouds and Blue Skies,' one or the other, not both, mark the futures of these gypsy pilots. ';Out of Focus.' Click, click, goes the mind of a killer, detailing revenge for a long endured and lying slur. ';A Day At the Zoo,' certainly is no picnic, except for the man killers of a wildlife park in Africa.