Meta­mor­phoses is a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries that explore the idea of life as a series of transformations.

Char­ac­ters change and are changed by the peo­ple and cir­cum­stances they encounter. Many wake up and dis­cover that things are not as they once were, and they must adapt to a new reality.

In “Dia­logue,” a vic­tim of a car-jacking imag­ines hav­ing a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion with her assailant. In “Remem­ber­ing Laura,” a griev­ing friend tells her story in coun­ter­point with the stream-of-consciousness nar­ra­tive of Laura, who keeps secret the fact that she is dying. And in “The Woman,” a tourist is vexed by her inabil­ity to trans­form the life of a beg­gar she encounters.

Meta­mor­phoses also illus­trates how every life is a col­lec­tion of sto­ries wait­ing to be told. Thus, as they share in the rich­ness of each character’s expe­ri­ence, read­ers may dis­cover their own sto­ries they may tell.

“Emo­tional odysseys of char­ac­ters who come to
cross­roads in their lives…an aes­thetic and most
sat­is­fy­ing read.”
— Elaine Bar­den, PhD, Mont­clair State Uni­ver­sity, Mont­clair, NJ

“A trea­sure of a book.”
— Ethel Lee-Miller, author of Think­ing of Miller Place: A Mem­oir of Sum­mer Comfort

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