Precis

Award-winning novelist, screenwriter and playwright Bill Mesce, Jr. turns, for the first time, to short fiction in a gallery of pieces ranging from the familiar (an encounter at a winter-whipped commuter bus stop in ��orth�� to the arcane (a lost cavalry patrol in the Civil War-set ��recis��; the sweet (a hopeful tete a tete at Parisian caf矇 in ��d Vivum�� to the bittersweet (a drifter marking time between busses in ��nte Meridiem��; the intimate (an altar boy's private rebellion in ��rusade�� to the epic (the Vietnam War novella, ��iamond Red�� Mesce's stunning first collection of short fiction grafts sharp images onto a landscape filled with compelling characters, characters who laugh and love and ache.�His stories carry and a sense�of immediacy, the truth of�experience.