Distant Connections: A Collection of Short Fiction

A sculptor who gives himself amnesia so he can critique his work objectively. A World War II private, training for D-day, who writes the President with a scheme to bring down the German economy. A foreman who must transport a two-ton block of stone using only brute strength and brains. A woman, disguised as a man, who fights in the American Civil War. A surveillance expert who owes his success to a flying saucer.

From ancient times through the present and into the future, these fifteen stor...