"Floating in The Middlelands" is a collection of stories that immerses the American reader in a simpler world of youthful endeavors, celebrating characters that are unfettered by any modern prescription of behavior. They are governed by the forgiving graces of native wisdom, but also inexperience—through time, without guile, and in the unending pursuit of bliss. The reader discovers armed robbery, flying houses, powerful urban horses, optimistic youths, obstructive siblings, misunderstood parents, criminals, strong teachers, visionary tavern owners, street vendors, policemen, detectives, veterans, dogs and wayward street people, all clinging in varying degrees to a promise of charitable forces in the world. They live in the countryside, in small towns, or reside amid the entanglements of the pulsating cities, chasing the promise of deliverance from their forms of suffering, back into the light.