MY MANY KISSES AND OTHER SHORT STORIES features 20 highly entertaining
vignettes of people who have decided to change their lives and then go
out do so. Dolphin, whose body of work is always about potential, gives
us characters who, for the most part, understand that wisdom opens many
doors. We meet a miner who has decided to become a mystic, a man who
understands that his constant failures are really successes when the
bigger picture is observed, a wandering poet whose goal is to have
enough money to pay for his meals and enough talent to entertain his
friends and others. These are characters who are "ready," who expect
things to happen and so they do. There are great life lessons in these
pages, but they never overwhelm the stories themselves. Dolphin proves
himself a true master of the craft of short-story writing, giving us
real characters and pacing their plots so that they tell us precisely
what we need to know and no more. In this way the stories are swift and
compelling, meaningful and memorable...and, ultimately, universal.