A collection of stories and novellas about the choices we face and wherethose decisions lead us including A Day Meant to Do Less a Best AmericanMystery Stories ... » 

A collection of stories and novellas about the choices we face and wherethose decisions lead us including A Day Meant to Do Less a Best AmericanMystery Stories 2008 selection.A schoolteacher escapes East Berlin atnight swimming the Spree River three times carrying elderly relatives on herback so she can make her way to West Palm Beach Florida and ruin the livesof fifth grade boys. A young husband reckons with the likelihood that hiswifes troubled pregnancy will end with her death before Christmas. A preacherbathes his ill and elderly mother not knowing that she has mistaken him forthe longlost cousin she watched murder his brother in her fathers tobaccofield. In six stories that read like novels in miniature Kyle Minor plumbs thedepths of human mystery where they meet our kindnesses and our cruelties ourgenerosities and our pettiness.Kyle Minors work has appeared widely inmagazines and anthologies among them Best American Mystery Stories 2008The Southern Review The Gettysburg Review Surreal South andTwentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers The Best New Voices of2006. His work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Kyle receivedhis MFA from Ohio State University and is currently a visiting professor at theUniversity of Toledo. «