The three short stories in 'Urban Echoes' were written between 1999-2002. The following is their back stories...
'Urban Echo' - This story was written after I took a tour of a renovated urban loft in downtown Houston around 2001. I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to live downtown.
'Hoops' - One day in 1999 I decided to write this tale about a inner-city teenager challenged to a game of one-on-one. The challenger was an alien from another galaxy, the prize was the planet Earth.
'Dolly' - This tale takes the subject of a latch-key kid a bit further than most other writers have done, with a bizarre ending of course.