There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories

A wounded bird. A Chicago taxi ride. A secret in an old coat. Forty sudden stories reveal how closely every human life touches another.

In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there is, in fact, no long distance....