With or Without: Stories

Set in family homes, factories, shops, small-town streets, backyards-the familiar landscapes of our everyday lives-these stories take us by surprise as they plumb the complex and often tenuous connections that exist between child and parent, husband and wife, friend and friend, the individual and his own thoughts:

- The unwitting jinx at a garbage collection company-accidents happen around him, not to him-avoids becoming the company pariah when he’s shown a way to make his “powers” work to ...