10. Sand

11. Arms Outstretched and Head Bowed

12. In Veracruz

13. Unfinished Dance for Girl and Boy on a Porch

14. Painters of Shadows

15. Cicisbeo

16. Hearken, Carlotta!

17. Angel

18. The Sixth of July

19. Islands

20. Once On an Afternoon

21. In the Afterlife

WRITING TO SELL

"The story that will sell is a story people like to read. Most people do not like to read about unpleasant subjects. Since they identify with the hero or heroine, they do not like to read stories in which those characters come to grief or end up in a state of bewilderment .... For example, a young man falls in love with his employer's daughter; the employer makes their marriage contingent on the young man's selling a large insurance policy to a miserly millionaire; the young man manages to sell the policy and he and the girl are united .... He might rescue the millionaire's grandchild from drowning. He might learn that the millionaire was a stamp collector and find a rare stamp for him. He might make a bet with the millionaire. Or the girl might solve the problem instead of the young man. There is no end to the possible variations..."

The Consolidated-Webster Comprehensive Encyclopedic Writers' Guide, 21^st edition

"There is no end to the possible variations," the young man repeated to himself as he entered the chrome-embellished sanctum of his employer—a man who we might here call "imposing," inevitably stout and undeniably balding (puffing the requisite fat cigar)–who motioned him to sit in an armchair several feet from a desk as broad as a billiards table. The young man, in this instance playing the "hero," sank into the prickly upholstery, making meek sounds in the back of his throat and feeling the cushion springs pressing against his delicate backside.