Jr Haydon Rochester

The Old Switcheroo Jr Haydon Rochester

Since Eve handed Adam that yummy apple, encounters between human males and females have been a challenge. These six stories show how human pairings are rarely easy, often bringing joy and misery in equal measure. In The Old Switcheroo an accidental luggage mix-up catapults a successful young engineer into the chaotic lives of a porn actress and her gangster husband. In Organ Stops the power of sophisticated artificial intelligence collides with the deeper intelligence of human love, and loses. Readers of Departure discover how a young artist's failure leads to a new beginning at the hands of a young man with an old boat and a taste for distant planets. In A Shroud Has No Pockets a chance reconnection with a teenage admirer saves a wife from arrest for killing her husband. Banker's Hours proves that the best things in love and life are often not the ones you plan for. In One Man's Art . . . two young art lovers defend their favorite painters to a potentially disastrous climax.