Things We Do When No One Is Watching

Stories

2017 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Short Stories (Adult Fiction)
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An 18-year-old driving to Canada to escape the Vietnam draft, a lonely housewife trying to attract the ghost of a ten-year-old housemaid, a widowed professor of archeology trying to keep his head after a home invasion gone wrong, a 36-year-old accountant tasked with a best friend’s funeral, siblings coming together to get their polio-stricken younger brother the perfect Christmas gift. The struggles of these characters explore loss, loneliness, estrangement, and surprising ways of coping.