In Which Brief Stories Are Told presents a collage of moments in the lives of average people-car salesmen and motel maids, mothers and fathers, neighbors and professional colleagues-with small-town northern Michigan as a backdrop. Author Phillip Sterling invites readers to share his characters' small tragedies and victories in fifteen deceptively simple, intimate stories. While varied in length from short glimpses to longer narratives, each of the stories is defined by a unique perspective, as characters present their version of a story-sometimes other peoples' stories-clouded by the same...