Fiction. Short Stories. From the ever- fertile mind of acclaimed memoirist (The Next Better Place) and author of over a dozen short story collections comes a new and extraordinary cache of tales that frequently incite, often enlighten, and (on occasion) charm. To wit, a distraught father and a tree engage in a fateful debate, a soldier allows his new car to be stolen by a reptile, a woman driver turns stalker on her stalker, a funeral home reanimates...