Dortha Duckworth

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they…

Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. Sh…

A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.

A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He wind…

To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizar…

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York City da…

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is d…

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a ro…

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a…