Short Stories

About the Book

I have completed a book of twenty short stories, the subjects of which encompasses a wide range of topics and situations that include adventure, Western, art, romance, history, animal behavior, and more. Because of its variety and uniqueness of presentation, these stories are bound to please the reader. I have published two novels—Vengeance and Electra—and my autobiography, The Life and Times of Albert Capo.

About the Author

The author’s autobiography is written in the third person as Albert Capo, and he is the author of the novel Vengeance. Alfred V. Cafiero was born on June 5, 1926, in New York City and was educated through the New York City public school system. After high school, he was inducted into military service in 1944 and served with the Thirty-Third Infantry Division in the South Pacific Theater of Operation. He helped liberate the island of Luzon in the Philippines and was part of the occupational forces in Japan. He was honorably discharged from military service in October 1946. After discharge from the army, he enrolled at Hunter College in New York City, and graduated in 1951 with a degree in chemistry and mathematics. His last employer was the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1960 to his retirement in 1988. Since his retirement, he has taught chemistry for two years at the Institute for Professional and Technical Advancement (a division of Middlesex Community College) and, from 1990 to 2000, as a substitute teacher for the Old Bridge Township School System. He has coauthored two scientific publications: “Single-Crystal Growth of Mixed Hexaborides for Thermionic Emission,” G. H. Olsen and A. V. Cafiero; Journal of Crystal Growth, 44 (1978) 287-290; and “Inorganic Synthesis,” A. G. Karipides and A. V. Cafiero; Cadmium Digallium (111) Tetrasulfide, Vol.X1, p.5. The author has been physically active all his life, cycling, swimming, and skiing. Part of his leisure activities for the past sixty years was painting pictures in oil. He also enjoys gardening and listening to classical music. He currently resides in Old Bridge Township with his wife of sixty years and has two sons and four grandchildren.