Arelo C. Sederberg
A Dead Night on the Beat contains sixteen literary short stories with city and rural backgrounds that alternate from adult to adolescent viewpoints. A major theme of many of the 'adolescent' stories is coming of age by frustrated youth. The lead story concerns a used-up veteran newspaper reporter who seeks redemption in an incident of an accident affecting a child and the final one, 'Last of the Valiant,' is an apocalyptic view of a world beset by atomic ruin brought on by repeated attacks by terrorists. 3