Cab Tales by Eric Muirhead The scene is Houston in the 70's, the stage a cab. Driving the night shift till dawn, a young cabby has abandoned a professional career and all the education behind it in search of life in the raw, which he discovers aplenty in trip after trip across the city's vast sprawl and through the tense streets of its center. Over the course of these stories his angry but naive romanticism is enlightened and chastened, as he encounters a degree of suffering and pain, barbarity and beauty, and wisdom, in the people and situations he meets, that far exceeds anything he has ever experienced. Cab Tales is a journey, sometimes perilous, sometimes funny, sometimes eerie and dreamlike, a descent into the cabby's self and what is ultimately the truth of all of us in the dark depths of our essential and common humanity.

About the author: The poetry and fiction of Eric Muirhead reflect a life of varied occupations and settings following his degree from Yale: a cab driver working nights in Houston in the early 70's, a hardhat a few years later working for Houston's Brown & Root on the island of Labuan, East Malaysia, in the construction of offshore drilling and production platforms, a sailor crossing the Pacific in a schooner he built during his tenure in the East, and a high school teacher in Los Angeles for the years that followed. He began publishing poetry in the 70's, and took up writing fiction in L.A. He returned to Houston in '91, joining the English faculty at San Jacinto College, and since has published numerous short stories in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. Cab Tales is his first book. click here to learn more about the author 00-9718361-8-3 Short Fiction / $16.95