If I could, I'd buy a copy of Janet Desaulniers short story collection - "What You've Been Missing" - for every writer who's a friend, for every friend who reads, for each of my sisters. (This I can do: Christmas.) The pieces have small plots but dig deep for unspeakable truths. Here's an interview with the writer on Identity Theory.

I read these stories, one a day. They satisfy and disturb; they make me worry that my own work is too slight, too quick, a frenzied heart rushing by on roller skates.

Thank you to Jeff Landon and Katrina Denza for sending me her work.