A boy finds a vocation as a weaver of bread. A Russian woman, thought dead, e-mails greetings to her adolescent sister in a Canadian suburb. An investment banker vanishes and is found fifteen years later when his daughter discovers a painting of herself in a distant gallery. With wit and ache, Daniel Karasik's Faithful and Other Stories evokes a world of seekers, characters panning for meaning in environments by turns hostile, mystifying, and enchanted. This collection brings together stor...

People grow in dimensions other than those we perceive.The teenage narrator of award-winning author Daniel Karasik’s latest story must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and Lucy, his crush-next-door, has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. Has he been coasting all this time, school and television his life’s only sources of momentum?

In Chad Pelley's Trigger Finger Blues, a sniper experiences a crisis of conscience when he falls in love with his next target - but are any of his feelings real? In The Snake Crosses the Tracks at Midnight by Daniel Karasik, a teenager must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and his crush-next-door has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. An accompanist must put up with a headstrong, condescending, and unprofessiona...

**In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York.Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.**A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city’s inner and o...

A short story about the most frightening night of my life. It takes place within a gated community where I had worked as a night shift security guard. While this is a work of fiction, it is based on actual events. The imagination is a powerful thing!

Out of nowhere, three weeks ago, I picked up the phone to the sound of his soft, dewy inflection drawing out my name. My knees buckled, inflaming the itch at the back of my neck. He didn't have to identify himself. I knew.This man's hands encircled my hips like so many chains of love.Then he cleared his throat and said the thing: "I have AIDS."

Marcel, a sensitive sniper, knew his life was missing something. But he didn't know what until he set his crosshairs on it: Violet Caine. A ginger-headed lover of Thai food, wanted dead simply because her brother messed with the wrong bike gang. It's a story of redemption coming too late, and the ways happenstance can turn a warm man cold. Then warm again. Whether fate wrote his troubled life, or he wrote it himself, he wants Violet Caine to be the end of it. Be it figuratively or literall...

A boy takes a dangerous journey with his father. During the journey they go through a war zone and the boy sees many things he does not understad.

An old man resents his neighbor's encroachment on his quiet life. (Short Fiction)

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.

When Blanche first began singing, she was humble, eager, willing to work, willing to learn. Now she is headstrong, condescending, unprofessional, and just a tiny bit full of herself. She is also the closest to genius that Antoinette, her accompanist, may ever have a chance to work with.

Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David OMearas work. Travel-being between places, in stations and airports and unfamiliar cities-creates a psychological, emotional space rife with reassessment, where the individual dwells simultaneously in the future and in the past. At the same time, OMeara imbues the domestic with a similar compelling transience, in poems on love ...