Imagining More and Other Stories

Description

Melancholy, bitingly satirical, occasionally tragic, Imagining More and Other Stories brings together a kaleidoscope of flawed, searching characters, among them actors, writers, troubled artists, striving to make sense of themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world.

The fifteen stories’ protagonists are confronted with impossible dilemmas, or are forced to ask unanswerable questions: Is love the meaning of life? Is sex the meaning of love? What does it mean to be dead? Is “the truth” more important than happiness? Is there ever a single, “objective” view of reality?

Many of the stories are themed around relationships, often centered around sex. In others a single protagonist grapples with internal demons, imagining (or perhaps actually living) a parallel life in order to make “real” life less unbearable. In one, the protagonist is caught in a dystopian nightmare that he doesn’t understand. This sense of the uncertain and the hidden is pervasive: in almost all the stories nothing is entirely as it seems.