More Parallel Lines

"More Parallel Lines" contains five, science fiction, short stories. Each story explores some facet of our potential future or our possible past. In "It Is About Time" a young boy discovers friendship for an old physics teacher and a love for physics, while the old man learns that things aren't always what they seem. "The Juggler" tells us about how our world might have come to be. Truth and lies, love and hate, courage and cowardice all play a role in the political intrigue of four worlds, as they spin in their orbits. An Air Force fighter pilot, forced into retirement, in the bayous of Louisiana, comes to terms with his mortality. In "The Venus Flytrap and the Martian Flyer" he finds something quite unlike anything he has confronted before. "Crystals of Life" tells about the fall and rise of a lifeform searching for a new home and finding paradise along the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. The Ri'il find an opportunity as they present mankind with a mysterious problem. In "The Troubadour" a boy and his father find hope in the songs of a space hobo. With Earth in its final battles with pollution and population, they think of heading out to where the grass might actually be green.