"In [Backless]  there appear characters staking their claims in diverse and culturally strange, if not hostile, territories .... Their reward is awareness and momentary respite from confusion. Our reward is sane laughter."

--Bill Brubaker, author of Stewards of the House: The Detective --Fiction of Jonathan Latimer

 

 

 

"His finger traces a shivery path down my spine. No it doesn't."

 

Set in laundromats and cowboy bars in Florida, DMV offices and rented villas in St. Croix, faculty houses and ranches in Utah, Sterns's stories bring us women and men who vacillate between nagging self-doubt and bold confidence. With great self-awareness they walk that line: they fall of course, but they always brush themselves off and get right back out there --for another spin around life's dance floor.

 

"Robin Sterns is a writer of considerable talent.... I have read no writer of fiction whose innate talents impressed me more. Ms. Sterns has the true story teller's gifts: she has a keen narrative sense; she can write characters that are believable; her stories have pace and rhythm and are a delight to read." --Robert R. Ward, Editor, Bellowing Ark

 

Sterns's fiction has appeared in Bellowing Ark. Backless is her first collection of short stories. Sterns lives in St. Croix, U.S. VIrgin Islands.

 

112 pages, $12.95
ISBN 0-9648757-3-X
5.5" x 8.5"  softcover
Publication Date: April 2002