WHISPERS...ECHOES...REMEMBRANCES... The past lives just a heartbeat away from the present, a shadow cast forward. One way or another, it tends to stick around; in fading photos, lingering songs, or yellowing papers and notebooks shoved in drawers or boxed up in closets. Here, all dusted off and assembled in one place, are the tales I wrote while involved with the gaming company Game Systems, Inc. Each appearing originally in the journal "Whisper of the Wood" from the later 1980's through the earlier 1990's. Tales of breathless adventure, epic fantasies both light and dark, and grim, uncompromising war stories of near-future conflicts. Newly revised and expanded for this collection, with fresh introductions and commentary. Sixteen excursions through the Wood - come along; the past seeks only to be remembered...