Alone With You in the Ether

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Alone with you is a fantastic collection of short stories that will give readers insights into the human psyche, whether it is evoked by the characters, or the secondary figures.

She couldn’t guarantee that they wouldn’t be thrown out in a week or a month, but it was cheaper than the motel where Vivian had been staying, where she had to get out of bed two or three times a night to check the lock on the door whenever a drunken couple pin-balling past caused it to rattle in a way that unnerved her. I’m less interested in writing about place in a sort of travelogue sense and more in writing about how different characters interact with the place they are in.Actually a cache of many gems, each one complete and powerful in both the feelings that they evoke and the eloquent way in which they unfold. They might be the warmest people in the world who would lavish on their adopted child the sort of palpable love advertised in greeting cards or on the collars of stuffed puppies.

The guidance counselors’ offices are in Evanston High’s creepy sublevel basement, and I begin my ascent up the linoleum-tiled staircase.The incredible forbearance of human beings in the face of incredible emotional or physical difficulty. Aldo’s mother, a lively Dominican girl too young for motherhood and too beautiful to stay long in one place, had never been very present. The more information I get, and the more intimate my relationship with that person becomes, the more I deepen my understanding of who this person is.