How Words Kindle Love a Short Story Collection

In How Words Kindle Love, a Collection of Short Stories, words spoken from heartfelt emotion initiate formidable personal change and draw couples together. Attraction may begin with a look or a gesture, but in these stories, love—an energy that forms a small universe—takes shape out of spoken words.
If romantic realism is a portrayal of life as it could be and should be, these stories aim to do just that, with a hint of magical realism thrown in. Strong women find good men, and a power great...