The title story, The Rebirth of Ira Masters, is an imaginative journey through the mental gyrations of a failed medical student who is flying to see his mother. . . in more ways than one.

Angel Rock is the powerful and touching story of a little boy who sees a strange man digging in the garden outside his bedroom window during a heavy rainstorm.

Fatty-Cake, Fatty-Cake is the sad and humorous saga a of a weighty woman who never leaves her household.

The Best Burritos in the Valley is a dramatic tale of a headstrong thirteen-year-old girl having problems at home who decides to skip school -- only to find unexpected terror at a taco stand.