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Days Of The Giants: About the Stories

About the Stories: published, waiting to be published, in limbo, or languishing in a trunk.: "Santa's Surgery"--Hope and sepsis.

"First Kill"--Love and death in Vietnam.

"The Gift"--Birthday present gone awry.

"Hansen's Disease"--Leprosy and courage.

"Buttermilk Falls"--Driving the highway, looking for someone to share the night.

"A Day in the War"--Two men in a foxhole.

"The Diamond Eater"--The torment of a Jewish doctor in a concentration camp and his search for salvation.

"The Mortification of Doc Cutter"--Love, death and surgery in the Old West.

"Harry and Duane"--Good friends and Vietnam.

"Life Support"--Brain death and organ transplantation.

"Blue Moon Rising"--The mythological demon/temptress Lilith.

"Broken Promises"--Abortion and betrayal.

"Lobster Traps"--Lobsters, mayhem and strategy.

"Rats"--Brothers and rats.

"Scenes From An Amputation"--Civil War surgery.

"I Hear The Subway Sing"--Electricity, fiberglass and betrayal.

"Tunnels"--A poet, a surgeon and frostbite.

"Body and Soul"--Chemotherapy and self-destruction.

"Foxhole"--War and friendly fire.

"Maggots"--Love, loss, surgery and the homeless.

"The Sniper’s Tale"--Fathers, sons and Vietnam.

"Batteries Included"--Emergency surgery.

"Beelzebub 2.0"--Software conflict.

"The Cell"--A prisoner's last meal.

"Sadie"--A peculiar laceration.

"Burying the Dead"--A firefight.

"Hot Pants From Leo's"--Vietnam and redemption.

"Ten Minute Scrub"--Surgery and loyalty.

"Boxes Within Boxes"--Hallucinations, delusions and living in boxes.

"The Launching Pad"--Cigarettes and compassion.

"The Operation"--Surgery and passion.

"Funeral"--A funeral and a cheeseburger.

"Elements of Surgery"--A surgeon and a nurse named Lulu.

"Echopraxia"--Psychiatry and paranoia.

"Postoperative Days"--Death and a medical student.

"A Term of Art"--Suicide and courage.

"Mona Interruptus"--A Private Eye and a woman scorned.

"The Jury Is In"--A lawyer, a doctor and a social disease.

"The Cure"--A leper and a prophet.

"Memoir of a Deserter"--Trench warfare.

"What He Stopped Eating,"--A professor and his diet.

"Requiem"--A terrible legacy.

"What They Don't Teach You"--A doctor's first patient.

"Good Samaritan"--Ethics and an accident.

"Donor"--Amy's organs.

"Mona's Haiku"--A head injury.

"The John Doe"--Oblivion.

"Reality Check"--Where am I?

"Clowning Around"--Circus Surreal.

"Dr. Loopy"--A search for dignity.

Many more...

(c) 2000 Richard Robbins

Courage!