DENYING DEATH

Im harping on the family and loved ones and living rooms and personal space and the home here because a good many of the stories by Brett, Seth and Gary in this book touch on those themes. Touch on might be too weak a term, come to think of it. Reach into is better. Probe the way a surgeon does for a lump is better still. A lot of these stories hurt. They hurt real bad. This is not a bad thing. Hurt can affirm life, and remind us were not alone.--Michael Marano, from his introduction_,