Hello, Readers, as you've probably guessed by now, my name is Todd Sullivan, and I wrote One Hour, A collection of Short Stories, Poems and a Novella. All of the stories in the collection were written in the last five years. Distance Lost and Moonsake are the oldest stories. They were both written in 1997 and 1998 at the National Book Foundation Summer Writing Camp (the best conference by young people in the country) which I have been a participant of for four years now. I started writing the last story, The Great Escape Artist, in January of 2002. I once had a great creative writing workshop with Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina. She said one thing which I often think about, and that was that every good first novel is autobiographical. The Great Escape Artist is definitely an embellished biography of the past twenty-four years of my life. I am indeed a Pisces, I grew up in New Orleans one mile from Pontchartrain park, mymother is a teacher, my father is a stock broker, and most importantly of all, I am a dreamer. Pisces are supposed to be the supreme dreamers, but I think everyone can identify with the main character of The Great Escape Artist, Lore Simmons. No matter how reality minded a person is, they dream, even if their dreams are only allowed to flourish while they sleep. Imagine the hard-assed, sixty year old business man going to sleep one night and envisioning brilliant emerald cities forever hurdling through endless space on the backs of falling stars.