Smokers and other stories

Abstract

This is a collection of seven stories I wrote during my two years at the University of Maryland. I chose to include them because I feel they best reflect my authorial strengths and goals. They exemplify the themes I most often explore: the duality of "good" and "evil" and how the definitions of each change from person to person; the idea of a journey literally and figuratively, of movement; isolation in the modern world; the idea of sanity and its relative flexibility; the imminent threat and promise of chaos, of violence and disorder, in the everyday world.