Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers Press, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas born author's first work of fiction - a highly praised collection of short stories, some focusing on encounters between blacks and whites, others on young people facing the death of those who ordered their worlds. John A. Williams said that the stories reminded him "of both I. B. Singer and Flannery O'Connor.". ISBN: 0-916092-100.