What is the setting of Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories by James Thomas?

The seventy-two stories that comprise "Flash Fiction" take place in many diverse settings. "Brilliant Silence" describes dancing bears touring in the United States, Mexico and South America. In "The Stones," a man observes the movement of stones on the dry desert floor. In "Crossing Spider Creek," a man is thrown from his horse in a remote area in the Rocky Mountains. In "Ponderosa," a minister gets wind of his son's infidelity at a Ponderosa restaurant. In the "Gold Coast," a man who is not in a satisfying relationship compares his view out his window of the downtown skyline to the Gold Coast he used to visit in happier days.