The stories in River, a first collection by Robert P. Bishop, explore the lives ordinary people lead as extraordinary events happen to them: A stubborn old man refuses to leave his mountain home as a ferocious winter storm approaches; A group of boys go fishing on a summer day that ends with ironic tragedy; An old veteran rejoins his comrades in a dark and cold forest where they fought and died decades ago; Two men spread their friend's ashes in the mountains with comic results; A lawyer avenges the death of his brother with the help of a police detective with Old Testament beliefs;...