Have a Beautiful Day Hot Air Balloons: and Other Stories

It struck me that a child's world is made up of such categorical imperatives. Experiences are unique. Laws are absolute. You cannot have any candy. At Tillie's age it meant you can never have any candy. You must go to your room meant you must go there forever.

Discover a new way of seeing the world with L.J. Schneiderman's latest short story collection, Have a Beautiful Day Hot Air Balloons.

Readers will move fluidly through the lives, loves, and dramas of various different characters, all of whom nevertheless evoke a deep sense of compassion as we witness some of the most precarious moments of their lives.

Whether it is a grandfather attempting to comfort his newly fatherless granddaughter or a nurse who finally reveals the mystery behind her patient's secretive visitor, each story contained within Have a Beautiful Day Hot Air Balloons deftly examines the struggles and triumphs that make life worth living.

Glimpse the lives, deaths, fantasies, humor and memories that shape the individual experiences we call "human" with this moving short story collection that will linger long after the last page is closed.