Fiction. The fifteen brief chapters of INTERSECTING MR. SAMS recount the adventures of the narrator in conjunction with his friend and associate, the tabby cat Mr. Sams. Their modest escapades unfold in language rich with Gale Nelson's characteristically formal whimsy, occasionally peppered with small cat sketches by Lori Baker. Mr. Sams moved quickly across the floor of the building, in hot pursuit of a rare razor-billed auk. "Another species spotted!" I exclaimed, birders' notebook quickly to hand.

Author City: PAWTUCKET, RI USA

Born in Los Angeles, Gale Nelson has lived in Providence since the 1980s. He has taught at Trinity Repertory Conservatory and Brown University, where he is Assistant Director of the Department of Literary Arts. Gale Nelson is the author of THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TALK ENDS, CERTERIS PARIBUS, and STARE DECISIS as well as of a number of chapbooks. He is represented in the anthology 49+1: Nouveaux Poètes Américains, and two of this plays, "Disciplining the Dimes" and "The Undiapered Filefish," are included in The Joy of Phonetics and Accents by Louis Colaianni. He is also the editor of paradigm press.