“A collection as rooted in the generation that has produced it as it is timeless.”
--The Compulsive Reader (Australia)
Volume 6 of the anthology series features my previously unpublished short story, “Platonic,” about a young woman considering the possibility of love in light of the divorced families of her childhood.
Excerpt from “Platonic:”
In fifth grade, your best friend’s father left for good. He moved to a city ten miles away. He moved into an “apartment.” You never saw this apartment but sometimes tried to picture it. A tall building like a hive with cells of windows. Maybe it had a swimming pool. Her father had grown a beard. You saw him a few times picking your friend up for the weekend. Was he in disguise, you wondered. A hunted man. He had moved out so that when the Russian Mafia or the Colombian drug cartel men fired a single bullet into his head his family would not have to be shot as witnesses.
