House of Java

The newest collection of warm slice of life stories without the cynicism. Some melancholic, some hopeful, some humorous, all keenly and quietly observant. Main stories include 'Steven', exploring the blurry line between friendship and love between 2 comics fans, 'Tide Pools', where a visiting student encounters a girl with an itch to move on and out of her small town life but no gumption to go through with it, the particularly remarkable 'May 27th', which brings a student social worker face to face with delinquency brought on by lower class despair, and 'The Burial', with its aura of mystery, in which a terrible secret is literally unearthed leading to an insightful revelation.Murphy, Mark is the author of 'House of Java' with ISBN 9781561633296 and ISBN 1561633291.