Short stories are immediate, primal, an emotional hit-and-run. They are a card trick, as opposed to the magic show that is the novel. This trio of short stories was written at a time when the entire world flipped upside down and the hits kept coming. This book, slightly over 100 pages, was written to keep the author's and the readers' sanities from unraveling...not that we were ever raveled. The book, as a collective, is both a reflection and an acceptance...