Shared Lives (Paperback)

"SHARED LIVES." This collection of 13 dynamic stories presents the author's most recent short fiction. Tales show variations on lives of a dozen or so couples with complex insights into all of our "shared lives." Fictions include much humor, adult sentiments, love stories sassy and sincere, most in extended scene or "dialogue" treatment. These stories stretch not only our imaginations, but our mind's possibility about what kind of relationships we might have, how our love or intensity about life might become more centered, increased or "fraught with care," in the sense of interacting with real people. Some of the voices, with punchy dialogue and the minimalist prose, seem as if you're in the next room, or overhearing your neighbors from a porch or cafe. The book is a "fast read," but stories stay with you a long time. Professional writing by one of America's literary authors. Worth the effort of discovery!