Testament: Collected Stories

by Moses L. Howard

The collected stories in Testament offer insight into the circumstances of others’ lives—sometimes humorous, often disturbing.A girl finds ecstasy surfing on a secondhand board, but her life is altered by chance encounters on a cold Pacific beach.An eager young fisherman is heartbroken by the Valdez spill.Teen-age children become adults too soon, forced to parent their own inadequate mothers and fathers.Young lives are bent by coincidences and misplaced trust—a chance meeting, a found package, the fallout of others’ drug problems.Friendships develop—or endure—beyond difficult obstacles.Ironic humor seeps through the arch back-and-forth in long-term marriages.These are stories with hopes for brilliant futures, for rebellious and creative people finding their way through the complexities and contradictions of modern America.

131 pages, Paperback

Published August 13, 2019

About the author

MOSES LEON HOWARD, an American writer and educator, has written for children and adults for fifty years. A retired dean of a community college, he has worked as a biology teacher, assistant high school principal, and mentor and counselor for students at risk. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

In addition to his long career as an educator in the U.S., Mr. Howard served as a Fulbright Fellow in Africa and spent ten years training medical technologists and preparing secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda.

Mr. Howard has also published children’s books such as The Human Mandolin and other titles under the pen name Musa Nagenda, including Dogs of Fear and The Ostrich Egg Shell Canteen.