Stories in this collection of fiction by the author of the critically-acclaimed novel "Homefront" range from fish-in-a-box (”Carol’s Aquarium”) to a tense prison visit (”Visiting Hour”) to a hotel worker who sneaks into the room of soldier home on R&R (Pushcart Prize nominee ”They Three at Once Were One”) to the most uptight couple in the world discovering earthy, passionate lust (”Mexican Blanket”).

Story lengths vary from flash-fiction shortness to standard short story length, and pieces are a combination of unpublished, previously published, and award-winning fiction.

Two of the published pieces, “Becoming an Oates Girl” (winner of a short fiction competition judged by Ellen Meister) and “Eating Eternity,” are no longer available anywhere but in "Carol’s Aquarium."

About the excerpts: "Homefront," a critically-acclaimed novel featured in the Huffington Post and the Stars and Stripes and on NPR, is available in paperback at Amazon.com, at Smashwords, and as a Kindle book. "The Year of Dan Palace" is still in progress.