Old Bottles New Wine: Fiction in Prose and Verse

Old Bottles, New Wine was conceived as a literary experiment featuring contemporary situations or narratives cast in classical form, each form indicated in parentheses beside its title in the table of Contents. The tone throughout the work is mostly humorous, occasionally melancholic, and hopefully realistic overall.

The Ancient Greeks believed that the most heroic personality often has within his character what they called a tragic flaw. That flaw at times inhibits or in some way affects th...