Calling the Cows and Other Stories is a collection of serious and comic tales as well as a few in between. It takes readers on trips to Doughton Park in the Blue Ridge Parkway, to war zones in Japan in 1945 and Northern Virginia in 1864, to the streets of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the forests of the Black Hills in South Dakota, to a coin collector's closet and beyond. It is packed with unique characters, unusual settings, varying narrative techniques, and actions compelling and challenging. Ron Robinson, author of Kitchen Dance and Thunder Dreamer, "Robbins knows how to hook a reader and how to reel the reader in. . .With this work, Kenneth Robbins makes his strongest bid yet to become one of our most prominent authors."