... 2) After the hit man nearly succeeded in killing him, Philip,dazed and gravely injured, wandered into a bad part of town and was rescued by a couple ofhomeless teenagers. 3) Philip Barnes, ... sails, bearing Grandma back to a lifeas exotic to me as the deserts of Egypt. 4) When Grandma's visit was over, we'd take her down tothe Greyhound station and watch her hand her ticket ... Story-telling should speak first to the heart and only second to the intellect. 2) It should, inIsaac Singer's words, "be both clear and profound," and it should also entertain. 3) Many...