INLAND PASSAGE AND OTHER STORIES. Rule, Jane. Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, c1985. 273pp, paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-88619-075-4. CIP Adult Reviewed by Philip K. Harber Volume 14 Number 2 1986 March Inland Passage is a collection of twenty-one short stories about loving relationships, both hetero- and homosexual, mostly set in the comfort of the North American middle class. The common factor is seemingly the author's growing acceptance of the inevitability of death and of the loss of those one loves. Perhaps Jane Rule has succeeded in distancing herself from her characters in the way that Dulce, in the story of that name, describes: What I have come to understand about myself is that I am interested in art rather than artists. Those who blundered into my life under the mistaken impression that I had something to give or be given have only threatened my pleasure in their very real accomplishments. Philip K. Harber, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.