Stories

An Impalpable Certain Rest
     Through a variety of characters and in a range of voices, the uneasiness of the late 1980s and early 1990s is expressed in this collection of twelve stories. The stories explore the themes of romance, war, alienation, creativity and loneliness. Women and men are caught between dreams and grim realities or are adrift from society, susceptible to external and internal pressures.
     The title states the author’s stance regarding the material. The detached view is a philosophical choice which offers a perspective on the lives of characters a reader might describe as pathetic or passive. Behind each story’s structure, and within each sentence, lies a fair presentation of the situations characters — resembling people everyone knows — must face.