Book excerpt: The author of three novels, four collections of poetry, and numerous screenplays for television and film, John William Corrington was perhaps at his finest with the short story. Compiled from three volumes of short fiction and one previously uncollected story, The Collected Stories of John William Corrington brings together the work of a craftsman whose stories tell of the violence and mercy of the human spirit, of the fine line between law and justice, and of times gone by that.