A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love

"Ready "
"""Aim "
"On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner of the mirror's frame. The slip still smells faintly of a familiar fragrance."
So begins "Tosca," the first in this vivid collection of...