In the thirteen stories of "My Body to You, " thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, parents devoted and destructive, sisters of different sexes, children and adults living in the mysterious world of autism. All these characters share keen powers of observations and a heightened sensuality. In a wild variety of settings, they struggle to controlOCoor dare to abandon themselves toOCotheir intensely private passions. A woman in love with a gay man she calls Sister Kin attempts to escape the bonds of her own body. An...
In the thirteen stories of "My Body to You, " thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, pare...
Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes. Although the plots vary from a corpse returning to visit his family weeks after his burial, to the musings of a congressman grappling with the weight of history, to a wealthy family's elaborate plot to cheer their mysteriously wounded mother all express a sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the absurd in the everyday.
Henry's characters are for the most part misfits, outsiders looking in on a world whose seemingly natural order is turned upside down. In a throw-away culture obsessed with sex and...
Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes. Although the plots vary from a corpse returning to visit his family...
In her award-winning collection, Elizabeth Oness travels a vast emotional terrain, from the loss of innocence to sexual betrayal to the helplessness of parents before their children. In Momentum, a woman carries the burden of a dead friend's secret for years until she finally decides to reveal it, only to discover that other, darker secrets still lie in wait. Rufus follows the quandary of a young man who is forced to choose between the affection of his girlfriend and his compassion for a homeless man who has taken up residence in his car.
"Articles of Faith" is a collection of stories...
In her award-winning collection, Elizabeth Oness travels a vast emotional terrain, from the loss of innocence to sexual betrayal to the helplessnes...