"Every story is about someone who wants something while someone or something stands for a while or forever in the way," writes Miller Williams. "These are about one Kelvin Fletcher, sometime around the middle of the twentieth century, who wanted to be good and wanted to grow up. What stood in the way of either was the other." In seven stories capped by a novella, The Lives of Kelvin Fletcher probes the heart and mind of a young man striving for self-discovery...