内容简介：
Originally destined to become a crusading journalist or witty editorialist, Bosacker was forced by family responsibilities to abandon his part-time jobs and night school classes at the University of Minnesota to work as a printer. There, his love of the well-chosen word enabled him to become a successful graphic arts salesman who migrated upward, propelled by serendipity coupled with his tolerance and love of faulted people, to become senior vice president of sales for a large international chemical company. Promoted much beyond his ambition and capability, Bosacker jumped to early retirement, first chance. Now living among his aging peers in a Florida retirement community during the winter and his fishing condo on Whitefish Lake near Glacier Park in summer, he has resumed his first love, weaving words into prize-winning poetry and surprising tales that borrow heavily from the fascinating people he met in his world-wide travels. Gerald Bosacker has assembled seventeen new short stories for this anthology and submits them to the reader for judgement. This late-blooming weaver of words strives to excite and surprise his readers, and includes a decision-provoking situation in each tale. The longest story is "Vengeance is Bull," a grisly novella that explores the evil in reprisals. The short story "Oleander Tea" is also the first chapter of his coming book, A Meal Without Potatoes is Just a Snack.