Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2004.

In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle with--and more often against--change.

Only ten of her kind have been born. Only one of them is fighting for good. Violet Doveling is a seventeen-year-old nearing her senior year of high school, and weird things have started happening. Strange urges to leave the house. Even stranger urges to take lives. It's hard to believe that in the grand scheme of things Violet's actions are throwing the current balance of light and dark into a favorable position. After taking her first innocent life, Violet's everyday existence is thrown into a chaotic world of ghosts, demons, and the mysterious Umbrella Man. In the first book of The Endwar...