Cat Oars: 8 books

There are many ways to tell a story. Four authors construct dramas featuring a starving artist and a chimp, and each story forms a chapter, and the chapters form a narrative. You've never read anything like it. I know that because I've tried to find something to compare it to. And I couldn't. Fasten your seat belts. You're in for a quite a ride. Have a look at the other Cat Oars books, too.

Race? Stripes on stockings? The style choice of a documentary film maker? Or what you have to look past to see the shades of gray? Twenty-three stories from writers of various ages, sizes, shapes and skin colors.

Stories inspired by the music and lyrics of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. A memory of Harlem in the 1920s. The lament of a young man as he finds himself in an unpleasant environment. An account of a serious barroom brawl framed by a description of a lifelong love of music. And more.

What's red? Blood? Roses? Wine? A dress? Lipstick? These stories have lots of red things in them. But nothing of any other color. There is a lot of red in these stories. You could say this book is red, redder or maybe even the reddest book that's ever been written. Meet the red dragon. Meet...

We were together. For about five years. All in the same place. Talking and laughing and bantering and comparing notes about all the big things: life and love and death and despair. Then we went our separate ways. After five years, we had a reunion. Want to see what happened? Then this is the book...

Stories of seekers and deceivers, stories of good faith and bad faith, stories of hopes realized and dreams broken, stories of need and fulfillment, stories of insanity and tranquility - stories of false prophets and true believers.

Writing about love and hate ... and Bobby Fischer ... and Donna Summer ... what's that all about, you ask? Read it and find out.

Six stories by six authors on the Jungian theme of Syzygy: The merging of the masculine and the feminine, two mates into one force. A wife is ready to leave on business, but her rather 'slimy' spouse is a little lustful ... A lonely man wins the woman of his dreams, but can he keep her? ... A Hungarian...