I had a vivid, anthropomorphic dream about heaven last night. I died in my sleep and immediately experienced the luminosity of heaven, which is my hope and expectation. Although beset with imagery of ...

"E.V. made no bones about it; he was not a horse whisperer by any stretch," writes Shepard (Cruising Paradise, etc.) in the first of 18 brief stories that make up his new collection. "He could fix bad ...