The Gritty Times: Two Novellas About Afghanistan

Specialist Shannon Stuart can't hack it in her company's early morning PT run at Kandahar Air Field. When a seemingly benevolent group of defense contractors picks her up off the side of the road and offers to give her a ride back to her barracks, she is confronted with the cold truth that the only soldier on her side is herself and it's up to her to see to the future.

Manhood is a psychologically introspective story about a college drop-out who gets souped into smuggling opium across the porous province of Jarwand, Afghanistan. While crammed between a Jardwani tribesman and a less-than-savory Turkmeni smuggler, he can only imagine what his big sister's Russian tycoon husband was thinking sending him here.