Family Impromptu

Fiercely conflicting urges animate the characters in Family Impromptu, a provocative, engaging collection of short stories that challenge and entertain as they reveal the peculiar way we both create and resist family life.In these captivating stories, we encounter the tangle of emotions that accompany close relationships.

Marriages expand and contract, love seeks fulfillment in a library, children dream of stalkers and kidnappings, dead dogs reconnect partners, and a cousin gets executed in Texas.

Poignant, humorous, and even unsettling at times, this collection takes a frank look at the complicated yet endearing jumble of family ties as characters pursue both intimacy and independence.