The ten stories that comprise COLD TOES AND BUSTED TVs range in location from the Appalachian Mountains to the Libyan Desert, and in time from the 1940s to the present. The cast of characters includes Cherokee tribal elders, Arab college professors, Haight-Ashbury hippies, dirt-track race car drivers and, of course, TV repairmen.
The stories are plain and underdeveloped. The typical story just ends. Sometimes the reader is left to mentally juggle various options for an ending based on the limited character development. Not much plot in the stories. Granted, a short story has limited space to develop characters and plots, all the more reason to not waste the reader's time. I don't recommend this collection.