Six Stories Up is a collection of original and entertaining tales that will take you to Paris in the 1920s to find an unlikely muse, to a small bar in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood for a slightly different Vietnam War story, to a fishing story and the power of believing, to the life and struggling times of a forger of rare books, to a very personal service for women of means, and finally to to a police interview room and a the confession of a thief that shows, at times, crime really does pay.