"Fred Taylor"s poetry lines are most often short, blunt, and arresting, like a man with only so much air left in his lungs who must make each one count. Indeed, as a man with Parkinson"s disease, he shares with us what it is like at times to walk the thin line between life and death," says Don Nickerson, author of Sunlight Fragments and The Healing of Teddy Bears. Taylor"s short stories, whether m...