Tales of the Late Twentieth Century

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An American soldier meets his femme fatale in Cold War Germany . . .

An aging, ex-musician, working inside the incinerator chamber of an old 19th century hotel, discovers a locked room that contains a Book of Souls of tenants from the past century . . .

The son of a mobster hitman receives a beyond-the-grave message from his once-abusive, now-dead father that changes everything he thought he knew about their lives . . .

A soldier returning from the Iraq War meets a beautiful and enigmatic girl waging her own military campaign, as darkly terrifying as the one he left behind . . .

A homeless man in New Orleans finds himself being followed by a mysterious someone he is sure is the reincarnation of Dick Tracy . . .

A woman who lost her Texas ranchman husband and any further meaning to her life is suddenly contacted by her young runaway cousin, whose parents are also dead, and who is now in hot pursuit of her own aimless existence.

From tragic to comic and in-between, these and other tales explore the zeitgeist, the spirit of our times, which was the late twentieth century.