Publisher's Synopsis
Nineteen stories. Trying to get home, the delicate workings of forgiveness after infidelity, a robbery gone wrong and a doctor trying to quit, a desperate love, lassoing stars to try to pay the bills, a temptation, a woman seeking a reckoning, a working girl trying to find true love, an inter-dimensional time traveler on a chase, a buried body, a love affair, the malaise of a ticking clock, a teenager trying to survive being a teenager, the beginning of healing, a monster in the moonlight, the grass isn't always greener, a betrayal, a ghost story, and a chain of convenience stores that are really a gateway to the places of the past. With the stories of GRAIN, Teri Skultety explores some of the darker wanderings of human nature and emotion, weaving a soliloquy of haunted dreams. How many things have you left buried at the bottom of a pool?