Urban Reef and Other Stories

Abstract

This collection of fictionalized work (an assemblage of interrelated short stories within a novelistic structure) represents my thematic interests as a writer: the tensions between a community and the people who comprise it; the consequences of religious identification; the possibility of life after death and how that belief affects life; the consequences of devoting one's life to the bar industry. My intent was for this collection to explore these interests (and others) through the interlocking experiences of those who work and drink at a bar in Washington, D.C.