Moon Madness and Other Stories is chock-full of delights, shocks and surprises. Overall, a comedy of errors, the prevailing themes of this collection are misunderstanding and ambivalence in intimacy between women.

   In the title story, our middle-aged heroine pursues her adolescent desires and learns a lesson or two on route. In other tales, down-to-earth Bernie meets a spaced-out lady, and is touched by magic in the end; "Fat Betty" wants to make a meal of the willful Princess Evaleen, (as the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach). Elsewhere, "Wild Horses" couldn't keep them apart - but what kept them together? And Maxine suffers unduly for her "Unsafe Address."

   Throughout the 21 stories and vignettes, women relate intimately in a passionate mix of love, lust, selfishness, generosity, kindness, cowardice, confusion and dismay. Ambiguity rules the day, with even the account of pre-pubertal sex play, "Kid's Stuff," having a twist in the tale; raising questions of allegiance at an early age. 

   The longest story is "Hannah in My Arms," an enthralling novella of girlhood love, lust and faithlessness in a British single sex school. (The reader may decide who betrayed whom in the end.)  The briefest tale is "Saturdaze": a nifty little gem, erotic, and diamond-bright with very sharp edges!