Love Short Stories

This compelling and haunting collection of short fiction exposes issues of longing, obsession, and loss that undercut the perceptions of conventional romance and relationships between both lovers and strangers. Flailing characters reach desperately for each other and never quite connect; others reveal unmasked glimpses of themselves to total strangers in brief, everyday interactions. In the title story, the small act of an unlikely character exposes an unexpected dimension of love. In "Surface Calm", a wife, bored with her everyday routines, is driven by loneliness to inflict pain on herself when her husband leaves on a business trip. Other stories in the collection explore similar juxtapositions of passion, horror, and spiritual transcendance.Martin, Valerie is the author of 'Love Short Stories' with ISBN 9780966861235 and ISBN 096686123X.