Tales of Insanity

About the Book

Journey to the edge of insanity and meet Cowboy and Ophelia in a brutally frank portrayal of life in the mysterious and dark realm of the psychotic. Surviving times of intense rage and pain, theirs is a capturing love story.

The book is a series of fluid short stories providing a continuity found in the chapters of a novel. However, each one is a story unto itself, yet is strongly related by the common threads of characters, action and timeline. This gives the reader a freedom not available in the usual medium, combining said continuity with a sharply defined intensity, as only the short story format allows.

"I thoroughly enjoyed Tales of Insanity and think it is well written and thought-provoking. As we have just published Thom Jones' stories, we are now looking for something a bit less dark. Tales of Insanity is a story that must be told."

Kathrynn Di Tomasso
Little, Brown & Company

About the Author

S. Basan was born in 1969 in the Communist East Germany. She emigrated to the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She is working on a volume of poetry "Poems From The Rivers Bottom" and completing a compilation of daily diaries about life in the "Dust Bowl" depression years in Oklahoma for contribution to the Library of Congress and other Historical Archives. She is a classically trained violist and teacher.

E.W. McAfee was born in Oklahoma in 1953. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University. He has won acclaim at the UAF Writer's Workshop for his short stories and is awaiting publication of a collection of poetry, "On The Wire." He has been a fighter pilot and bush pilot from Central America to Alaska.