Lights in a Western Sky

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The twenty stories presented here are from the same stable that produced Murchison’s Fragment, a collection of short plays on the theme of trial and tribulation, with most having a twist at the end or an unexpected denouement. If they contain a message at all it is of the frailty and waywardness of the human condition, where what we do is seldom determined by a clear concept of good and evil but instead is influenced by the situations in which we find ourselves and the people that we encounter.

Most of the stories are original and unpublished, but four of them were precursors of plays in the above collection – three under different titles – and appear here because, in the author’s opinion, they sit more comfortably in the present format. They are: Snow in Winter (The Pagoda), Chemosit (Murchison’s Fragment), Johnny’s Ride to Town (same title) and Judas Thomas (The Gospel of Judas Thomas). Notes accompanying the plays are to be found in Murchison’s Fragment.

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