Collateral Damage and Stories

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here baseball opens a passageway to life after death obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them.In Collateral Damage the collection's centerpiece writer John Fromme suffers a mental upset caused by his refusal to confront a family murder he witnessed as a child. Quirky richly imagined characters populate these stories inviting readers to measure them against their own lives and to want to read these stories again and again.