Jack is a human being. He is trapped in a psychological experiment gone awry. He has been given the task of translating all of human culture into a single sentence so that the scientists can understand. To be a Pepper is to be a Cracker Jack kid. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Identity is a construct.
Free Speech and the End of the World Pif Magazine forthcoming Noah is an aging ex-radical whose psychic powers make it difficult for him to live with the failure of the 1960's. He keeps himself busy taking photos for the local paper, focusing his lens on politicians and corporate flaks, parades and press conferences, because remembering his activist past always brings on visions of an apocalyptic future. But, when the Free Speech Movement's leader, Mario Savio, has a heart attack and dies at the age of 53, Noah has to go back. Music Lessons Century forthcoming Jonathan Zuckerman is a minimalist composer who can't help repeating himself. Jonathan Zuckerman is a contactee who has been given a mission, but he doesn't understand what he's supposed to do or why he's supposed to do it.