1. Love Has a Price Tag
2. 2008 WOW Anthology
3. 2009 WOW Anthology
4. The World Outside the Window
5. Never Again
6. Just a Dream

THE STORIES IN THIS BOOK ARE:

"THE TRAIN TO MOSCOW" was inspired by an actual train I took from St. Petersburg to Moscow. It could have happened just as I described, oh yes. I think I need to take that ride again. It also sparked the story for my upcoming novel MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW.

In "BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE", the plight of the homeless was stirring me up again. It's a short-short story and was initially the result of a writing exercise - using a list of ten words to write a story and writing it quickly. Of course I expounded a little for this collection, it's longer than the original one paragraph.

"A SILVER LINING" was my contribution to an anthology by the Amazon Shorts writers - THE WORLD OUTIDE THE WINDOW. It had to fall within the guidelines of the Window on the World theme. I truly enjoyed writing this one. It was a challenge. Just love those challenges.

"JUST A DREAM" is a short story that Amazon Shorts published last year. And I love it, I hope you do, too. It's okay to love my own stories.

Okay, "MAMA'S DIARIES." I've received so many emails asking for more of this story. I had put an excerpt up on one of my blogs and boy did I get a response. And yes, I do love this one, too. So now you can at last enjoy the rest of it.

"THREE LITTLE WORDS": a woman's take on those three simple words - I Love You - and whether or not they mean anything other than just that. What I mean is ... are they committing words or not?

"BROTHERS" is the story of two babies - one who escaped death, one who didn't. I will say that this one is true. Just as in my last collection when I wrote "Oh Yes, I remember", this one is also dear to my heart.

And then comes "VIAGRA DIALOGUES." Quite a contrast! I had to wait till both my parents went to the after-life to write this one. It is double-X-rated. Yep, I do have it in me, folks ... a warped sense of humor.

"ZARA'S SECRET" is next and is a story of a American woman in Paris making some wrong choices, and then again, maybe not. But as always in forbidden love there is a price to pay.

AND lastly . . . "MOHAN, INDIAN BOY." A real departure for me having a charming little boy as my main character. I was sitting in a mall waiting for my adult son who was being fitted with eyeglasses one day not so long ago, when an Apache family entered the corridor. Just watching them, the two parents with their son who was the spitten image of both of them, was all it took for me to feel the beginning of a story. And it has been a delight writing it. Arizona has a few Apache reservations and the terrain and environment all around was inspiring for this story. It's set near Sedona in a past era - with all the beautiful, spritual surroundings in the red-rock foothills.

"CAFE DUSTYEFSKY" is a stageplay with music based on my Santa Monica piano bar days. My partner Don Dominguez wrote the music and lyrics, I wrote the book. It's a fun story, although not without its tragedy. And it's full of romance and drama. Four characters, all singers, all wanting love and happiness - a slice of real life.