The Fallible: Stories

A teen discovers a gun in the trunk of his car. A spider exposes a weakness a son has never seen. A young woman reaches a breaking point with her partner while traveling in Egypt. A serial philanderer uses the personal tragedy of September 11th to his advantage. In these stories and more, the author of takes readers down paths punctuated by the mistakes of parents and children, teachers and students, spouses and significant others--imperfect people driven by love, yearning, violence, dysfunction, memory, pain and, ultimately, hope. Spanning three decades, the end of the 20th century through the early 2020s, is a collection brimming with the unexpected.