Matters of Shade

A little girl searches a haunted lake for the ghost of her older brother. A bereaved father receives messages from a daughter he thought was dead. A widowed mother learns that her only son isn't who he seems to be. A piano player mourning the loss of his family turns to murder. These are just some of the dark paths explored in MATTERS OF SHADE, a collection of fiction that includes the award-winning "Yersinia-Z."