If I Could Live Next Door for a Day

• Main Author: Yoke, Tad M. (Tad Mitchell)
• Other Authors: Rodman, Barbara Ann
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 1993
• Subjects: short stories; personal writing
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500286/

If I Could Live Next Door for a Day is a collection of short stories with the recurrent theme of taking life for granted. "Climbing the Fence" is a story about a sexually unfulfilled woman who has an unfulfilling affair. In "Chained Melody" a condescending young man learns about life in and out of jail. "An Educated Man" shows the inferiority of one man in the presence of others he considers more important. A deluded school counselor brings a jealous boy and his younger brother together in "Piggie and Pete," while another young man in "The Good Boy" tries to break away from his mother. Finally, a woman learns about herself and the world around her when she wins a large sum of money in "What About Ten-Fold?"