A collection of short stories from George V. Packard. Seventeen short stories written over a fifty year span. Markers in time, like a slideshow of the author's life. We see him transform from an innocent young man in rural Maine ("A Pilgrim Far in Sundry Lands"), to a disillusioned teacher at an exclusive American prep school ("Shoemaker's Children"), to a witty humorist on a little island off the coast of Ireland ("A Rural Tale").

That Grail Song, Sam, One More Time This is the story of an odyssey of friendship - and incidentally, love. The friends are George and Tim and they're in a "helluva" situation all because of Sally. Sally with the white dress and the malapropisms and the father who hates Tom and everyone else and still hates F.D.R. Making off with fire trucks and blowing up toilets as schoolboys is nothing to what they set out to do now - steal Sally from a castle in Poughkeepsie, otherwise known as a girls' school. "This is subtitled a 'zany' novel, and you can say that again." -- The New York Times, September, 21, 1969

Modernity by George V. Packard Much changed thanks to musical innovations like Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, scientific advances such as quantum mechanics, new artistic genres like surrealism and other fresh ways of thinking that came along in the early 20th century. Here is a collection of short satirical "interviews" with the great icons of the Modern Age. MODERNITY takes a backward look at some of the figures and concepts that made us the way we are: Schrodinger, Wigner, Duchamp, Pound, Einstein, Proust, Pollock, Stein, Rothko, Marx, Hawkins, Beckett, Schonberg, Wittgenstein, Freud, Joyce, Godel, Monk, Stravinsky, Cage, Kafka, Higgs. George V. Packard's fiction has appeared in Redbook, Family Circle, Cavalier, Texas Monthly, Paris Metro, Yankee and Sports Illustrated.

RESCUE by George Packard a Novel Based on a True Story - SHOULD YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER MAN? If you should, why? Can you say 'no' ? Will a woman understand your refusal? These are the questions RESCUE asks. The story is told against the background of an actual day and night search and rescue in the Gulf Stream. The conflict on the S.A.R. vessel arises between the Executive Officer and the Ensign after the Captain finds the lone man floating in the breaking seas. He finds him through extraordinary diligence after everyone else on the vessel had given up. This dramatic search and rescue is authentic in every detail as the author himself participated in this life-threatening nighttime rescue. For this he was rewarded a Commandant's Commendation for "heroism at sea." For the author this experience was, " ...the furthest point of his navigation."