"A short story has been compared with a flare in the sky that for a brief moment lights up one portion of the world & the lives of a few people caught in its glare. The stories in Robert Greer's Isolation & Other Stories (do) just that. Twelve stories in all, they are set in big cities, little towns, an isolated ranch. The characters are sometimes white, sometimes black. With only one exception, the recurring theme is the power of friendship, love, forgiveness & humor." ---Sybil Downing in The Denver Post. Robert Greer, author of the CJ Floyd mystery series, The Devil's Hatband, The Devil's Red Nickel, The Devil's Backbone & Limited Time (a medical thriller), lives in Denver, where he is a practicing surgical pathologist, research scientist & Professor of Pathology & Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He also edits the High Plains Literary Review, reviews books for National Public Radio & raises Black Baldy cattle on his ranch near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He is currently at work on his fifth novel, Heat Shock, a new medical suspense thriller.