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Stories with No End
A Bosnian immigrant seeks acceptance through an act of charity. A Midwestern family grows and shrinks across decades, treating addiction through faith and silence. In upstate New York, a construction crew battles conflicting mandates in COVID’s first lockdown order. In Los Angeles, retributive violence feels justified to a call center employee because surveillance technology enables identifying the offender; but consequence isn’t monitored by door cameras. In Connecticut, a man’s fake identity affords him a life of ease, but loneliness and desire blow his cover. The social perils of Christmas threaten to shatter a St. Paul friendship.
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Benjamin Obler's short story "The White Man's Incredulity Furrows His Brow" won the short fiction contest with Puerto Del Sol, in 2015, and appeared in its 50th Anniversary edition. His stories have appeared in Qwerty, The Evansville Review, Belle Ombre, Cottonwood, Sundress, and Slate.
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To my all my students, clients, and colleagues, past present and future, this one's for you. I took ten stories in need of final moments and discovered them, finally, if in many cases after years and years.
See a gallery of the book's interior below.
