Tales of the Heart and Other Brainless Organs

About the Book

A soldier who shoots a moose to fulfill his training, a husband who makes a movie with a famous Japanese porn star, a garage mechanic who seeks wives through mail-order bride services, a beach blanket serial killer, a pedophile high school English teacher, an aging scholar who looks for fulfillment in the sex markets of Bangkok, a young professor who finds that truth is not what schools are after, and a malevolent picture frame that brings death to anyone whose image it embraces-these and other forms of misguided search for love and happiness are explored in these short stories.

About the Author

The author has previously published books of both fiction, e.g., Dark Places, Other Spaces, (iUniverse) and non-fiction, e.g., A Linguistic Approach to Reading and Writing (Mellen Press) as well as numerous contributions to scientific journals and internet periodicals. He is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Florida.