Chance Does Not Exist

<p>A journalist plunges into the underworld of Paris in 1885 searching for the elusive man who founded the International Red Cross and who has lived homeless without a trace for twenty years. With this story <em>Searching For Henri </em>Richard Stanford opens his new collection <em>Chance Does Not Exist </em>elaborating on the themes of missed opportunities the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of memory. People are on journeys in these stories: two cousins with temperaments so opposite they live in different worlds drive in <em>The Chevy Belair</em> through a blizzard to a unique destination; in <em>Jailbirds </em>a man fascinated with photography gets a job building a prison museum only to travel through time to discover the most inhumane of its acquisitions. Thieves artists journalists wanderers are the people who populate these stories so expect the unexpected...</p>