SYNOPSIS

A fourth grader tries to make sense of her father’s mysterious disappearance by becoming an ace speller. A freelance designer reels from the emotional cost of an affair with a man she knew was married all along. An archeologist travels to a ghost town to dig for obsidian and confronts her brother’s death. A seemingly unsuitable couple gets even closer when they decide, one night, not to sleep together.

Each of the stories in The View from Below explores the risks and promise of intimacy, the tenuousness and tenacity of connection.

Winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Short Fiction