These ten stories explore our desire, as human beings, to find and know one another, and also ways that desire is obstructed, sometimes by dint of our own shortcomings.  If we have problems with other people, it might be at least in part because, like them, we're human and flawed.

Our lives are full of missed connections.  We simply fail to see the full, lived reality of other human beings, and we do that on a daily basis.  It happens because we are locked inside ourselves, and misconstrue over and over again on the basis of personal smallnesses or culturally informed conditions--gender, ethnicity, class, religion.

Though these stories explore the strained alienation in human interactions, they are ultimately a celebration of our struggle to love one another, and of our deeply entrenched aspiration to reach across divides and embrace our shared humanity.  I hope you'll find humor and pathos in these pages, bouncing off one another.