Gathered here together are 22 of Garrett Socol’s finely-crafted stories, by turns darkly humorous and light and zany, and often both at once. The characters populating these stories march slightly out-of-step with the world around them: a dentist, his ..

The most brutal hardship for a wife is having a husband behind bars, especially when he's serving a life sentence. It is difficult for wives to cope with such a large amount of depression, which at some times reaches its extreme. A prisoner’s wife.....