Sandra Novack has earned great acclaim with her short fiction, which has appeared in more than thirty literary venues, including The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review . Now, in this new collection of stories, she further demonstrates her mastery of the form while exploring a universal theme: the desire for connection. In "Cerulean Skies," a wife must deal with her husband's artistic calling while reexamining the loss of her own creative...