Charles Ynfante

In the far distant future, Humankind is forced to live in hermetically sealed plastic domes. Most of the earth is barren and uninhabitable because of deadly viruses. Somewhere out in that barren wasteland is an Anti-Body Source to fight the deadly virus and free Humankind from their confines. Three individuals risk all to save the world.

The influence of globalization in the American Southwest is not a new or recent trend of the twentieth or twenty-first century. The phenomenon of globalization goes back centuries to the arrival of the first Spanish and the French, among others. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are only the most pronounced aspects of globilization but there are earlier influences as well. My study is a general overview.

In "The Village," a young man returns home to his village. He finds that his family and friends are gone due to government decree. This decree is based on suspicion and discrimination. The young man takes matters into his own hands. In "The Question," an investigator is given an assignment by an old man to find the source and meaning of life.

As the universe collapses back onto itself, a daughter, an historian, awaits to hear from her father, an astrophysicist, who has gone on an intergalactic pilgrimage to Earth at the end of time.

A dysfunctional family living in the middle of nowhere. Members of the family are waiting to get their money --- their checks. And they keep waiting until tempers flare and relationships break down. A horror story with domestic violence.

"Voyage at the end of Time": The universe is collapsing back onto itself. A daughter, an historian, awaits to hear from her father, an astrophysicist, who has gone on an intergalactic pilgrimage to Earth at the end of time. "Sounds of Life": Aliens visit a planet. "Love": Phineas wants to give his true love the perfect gift. "The Game": A football coach is put to the test by space Aliens. "Last World": A single flower is all that is left. "CLO[w]N[e]":...

A man, Leroy Barnes, who just wants to live in a small town and do his job is harrassed by a dog and its owner. Leroy takes the entire matter into his own hands. A satiric and mutely dark short story.

Mr. Ory, a wealthy man in the city and the world, controls his family. Then his brother arrives needing a place to stay for a few days. Life for all begins to unravel.

"Butterfly of Eden" is a novelette. Mariner Manchild's father has died. Mariner never knew his father; his mother never spoke about him. Mariner now must settle his father's estate. What he finds instead is a journal his father kept. What Mariner learns from the journal and the people he meets forever changes his life.

In the year 1972 in Orange County, Southern California, an ex-Nazi, Ulrich Kreitz, recruits a young man to the cause of Neo-Nazis. What Ulrich Kreitz does not know is that the new recruit, Heinrich Traupman, wants revenge against Ulrich.