Missionary Dating and Other Stories

A woman wrestles amusingly with her unrequited love for a Jesus freak turned monk. A man defends himself after his wife drowns two of their three children in a bathtub. A diner hostess collects old ladies as friends, but can’t cope when they start dying. A young mother must carry on after her husband is unmasked as a serial killer. The scion of a failed furniture empire falls for a wild girl and discovers how to rebuild his family fortunes. Affectionate, funny, sometimes dark, and never terribly literary, these short stories put you in the shoes of ordinary people trying to survive the ridiculous, the inevitable, or the unthinkable.
It also includes a sneak peek at the first two chapters of Sandra Hutchison's next novel, "Bardwell's Folly."