Matching Panties

United by the most common of items-underwear-this offbeat collection of thirteen short stories celebrates the connection shared by all individuals and the universal struggle to make sense of human nature however quirky it may be.</p><p>In the title story Darla wants a boyfriend and her entire life revolves around getting one boy to notice her. Change tells of how a conversation with an elderly family member on Halloween night subtly alters the course of a young woman's life.</p><p>All seventeen-year-old Jay wants is some peace and quiet and he gets it when he is accidentally locked in a storage room all night in The Storage Room. In Jamie and Amy a young man is dying to ask an older girl for a date but is mortified by the way their names sound together.</p><p>8 Girls Are In Love With Me and 8 Boys Are In Love With Me tell the surprising tale of a scheduling mix-up at a summer camp that leads two counselors to teach swimming lessons to a group of difficult kids and in Faking It Juliet doesn't expect to make any friends during her European vacation but that's before a hot Australian guy introduces himself to her.</p><p>Both the serious and trivial sides of the human psyche merge in the sometimes somber oftentimes hilarious but always thought-provoking collection of stories in <I>Matching Panties</I>.</p>