The author's Heavy Tales Rising presents yet another trio of engrossing novellets. Each tale shows evidence of the author's broad imagination and ability to create plots with intent to captivate, subdue and, in turn, liberate the reader's thinking. The first story is compellingly entitled "Loser!" In it we meet Sonny Ambergen, an average 37-year-old in many ways. He has undergone a few of the more unfortunate of life's developments, for example, a bad marriage and less-than-optimal family relations. In addition, he's a bit of a softie who'll do a "random" good turn here and there with little recompense. But that describes a lot of us. The difference is that Sonny makes an acquaintance, during a rather extraordinary hospital visit, that most of us will likely never be privy to. Story Two is "Warrior Babies." The teller of this tale has affiliation with governmental secret service. His warning from the beginning to the reader is that we'd best regard his story as fiction. The reason is that the events to be described promise to be too shocking for reality, too extraordinary to be happening. Yet, as the reader plows through the paragraphs, a heart-pounding suspicion mounts that this guy is describing actual experiences. The book's last tale is "Dream Come True," and is a study of paradoxes. It begins with a home break-in that's not really a break-in. Once inside, the poor home-invader begins actually to feel trapped . He fancies himself a clever individual and cooks up one and another scheme with intent to deceive. But in fact, he's endowned intellectually with less than "a bright light" and is transparently driven by dangerous dreams, dark desires, and faulty demented designs.