Where You Are

<p><strong>Is where you are the last stop or the next step?</strong></p><p>These ten short stories explore the paths and the inevitable detours of later life - the loss and longing unexpected passions </p><p>and unfinished business setbacks and second chances that pave the way from where we have been to where we might yet be.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p><em>A romantic resides with two brothers with big plans.  Fifty years later a first love defines a life.  A marriage is put to the test when retirement plans go astray.  A widow is aroused by a younger version of her husband.  A scholar pens a blog to bemoan a failed romance.  Lifelong secrets between old friends prove fatal.  A long dead mother materializes as a bizarre vision.  Revenge is the goal after a ghosted first date.  At her husband's funeral his wife reconsiders her marriage. A retiree forced to downsize faces outsider status among new neighbors. </em></p>