The Gift and Other Stories explores mysteries of human desires and the unique ways each of us struggles to fulfill our meaning for existence. Each story is unique in time and setting, every character balancing strengths and weaknesses to succeed, discovering something new about themselves and the paradoxes of their worlds. This collection of short stories includes: "The Gift" "The Stonecutter" "Facing Grace with Gloria Grace" "Homunculus" "Reddog" "Captain Withers's Wife" "The Thirteen Nudes of Ernest Goings" "Crossing Over" "The Activist" "The Perennial Student" "The Curse of a Lonely Heart" "Suchin's Escape"