Mary McGlynn, Janice Galloway Thomas Cousineau, Thomas Bernhard Nancy Blake, Robert Steiner Chris Hopkins, Elizabeth Bowen

A collection of short stories in which the main subject is fear. Violence, both random and institutionalized, is seen as a constant threat, and a component of a society which seems designed to intimidate or exclude women.

Includes stories that examine the moments where lives split like a stone, where people are healed or broken by a word or the touch of a hand.