Moses L. Howard Boeken

The collected stories in Testament offer insight into the circumstances of others' lives-sometimes humorous, often disturbing.A girl finds ecstasy surfing on a secondhand board, but her life is altered by chance encounters on a cold Pacific beach.An eager young fisherman is heartbroken by the Valdez spill.Teen-age children become adults too soon, forced to parent their own inadequate mothers and fathers.Young lives are bent by coincidences and misplaced trust-a chance meeting, a found package, the fallout of others' drug problems.Friendships develop-or endure-beyond difficult obstacles.Ironic humor seeps through the arch back-and-forth in long-term marriages.These are stories with hopes for brilliant futures, for rebellious and creative people finding their way through the complexities and contradictions of modern America.

Moses Howard is an American writer and educator. The poems in this collection reflect his life and experiences as community college dean, biology teacher, and counselor/mentor for students at risk.

Learning from the first free students in Uganda in the 1960s:Dr. Moses Howard describes his experiences as an African-American biology lecturer from Mississippi who came to spend ten years as a teacher in Uganda, beginning first as a Fulbright scholar in 1961.