Lone Journey & Other Questing Stories by L.D. Clark Lone Journey & Other Questing Stories is a book of journeys along the verge between reality and myth, drawing sustenance and pain from both. For a woman alone in the wilderness, giving birth is a visionary quest through time and space. The last ghost of a ghost town plots to kill a passerby and enslave her soul to slake his loneliness. These and ten other strange interludes in this volume explore the mysteries of the human condition. About the author: L.D. Clark, now retired after a distinguished career as a university professor, is the author of eleven books, eight of which are fiction. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9718361-3-2 Fiction / $16.95

Here's what others say about L.D. Clark and his writing:

"One of the Southwest’s finest contemporary authors."
-REAL

THE DOVE TREE "evokes many echoes of profound universal human dilemmas."
-Virginia Kirkus Reviews

THE FIFTH WIND "makes readers feel a chink of pure warm light widen over them with each page turned."
-Portland Review

"The meaning of A BRIGHT TRAGIC THING lies in the juxtaposition of glory with the tragic, a juxtaposition that yields a profound existentialist vision."
-Journal of the Southwest

IS THIS NAOMI AND OTHER STORIES is "a lovely, moving collection of stories commemorating rural life."
-Books of the Southwest

A CHARGE OF ANGELS "is (one strand of) a literary tapestry comparable to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha series."
-Blue Mesa Review