Contemporary issues of the U.S. and Mexican border. Setting is a fictional island on the Rio Grande, not part of the U.S. or Mexico. Previous Publications Glass Houses, Fall 1996 Coffee Hs (ISBN 1-56689-051-9), pb, $12.95. Sold: 1000 His work appeared in Stiller’s Pond and 26 Minnesota Writers. He is winner of the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction. Submit to B&N Discover Program and Borders Original Voices.