dustjacket idea for revised edition

my father's most beautiful photograph

photo: jackie theriot

Monique and Nicole are playing a new board game in their bedroom after Nicole's second birthday party. 

i dreamed . . .

. . . I drove a Spitfire Triumph from Catahoula to my apartment in New Orleans. Shifting from third to fourth, the Triumph lost some steam, so when I spotted a hitchhiking mechanic on the entrance ramp at Butte La Rose, I figured, rather than coming to a complete stop, I’d better just slow down and have him hop inside.

me one day old

illumination

photo: malcolm lidbury

Each of us is given a magic wand at birth.

the man who fell to earth

The script called for the character to attempt suicide by jumping from the fourth story of a mental hospital.

flower girl

We tunnel through the cosmos seeing only a tiny fraction of it.