Enter a world without angels, a world explored in three novellas, on each for Purgatory, Limbo, and Hell. From the author of Saving Magdalene and Deep Autumn. In I See No Angels: -A priest becomes convinced that murdering an elderly parishioner is a necessary sacrifice and his last chance at redemption. -A man suffering from a sleep disorder finds himself surrounded by dead people-one or all of whom he may have killed. -A father teaches his family to disregard all boundaries, then stands witness to his wife and children exploding every taboo in order to destroy all they've ever known-except...

Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County is a collection of novellas and stories that explores the condition of morbid nostalgia: being so bound to the past that it poisons the present and chokes the future. In the novella "Sweater Girl," a man combs through the ashes of a teenage party that took place forty years ago, looking for clues to what had transpired, including arson, an amputation, and the death of his father, while obsessing on the party's catalyst, an enthralling young sweater girl. Plus...a retired romance novelist faces her fears of intimacy in a most radical fashion...a...

Ever notice how the whistle of a boiling tea kettle sounds like a scream? A screenplay without a film, The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea is the story of two emotionally adrift women and the preyed upon young boy between them. Ruth St. Clair struggles with indifference as a wife and mother. Her husband Phil is a violent alcoholic, but instead of divorcing him, she pursues a seminarian who is nearing his ordination. Ruth feels herself going through the motions in raising her fifteen-year-old son Danny, yet she is surprised to discover that he has become a stranger. Lisa Ann Kavanagh is truly...