"Facing Grace with Gloria and Other Stories explores mysteries of human desires and the unique ways each of us struggles to fulfill our meaning for existence. Each story is unique in time and setting, every character balancing strengths and weaknesses to succeed, discovering something new about themselves and the paradoxes of their worlds.
This collection of short stories includes:
“The Gift”
“The Stonecutter”
“Facing Grace with Gloria Grace”
“Homunculus”
“Reddog”
“Captain Withers’s Wife”
“The Thirteen Nudes of Ernest Goings”
“Crossing Over”
“The Activist”
“The Perennial Student”
“The Curse of a Lonely Heart”
“Suchin’s Escape”
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William H. Coles is an award wining author of literary fiction. He was a finalist in the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition 2010. He is the author of Story in Literary Fiction: A Manual for Writers, and created the website as a resource for writers of literary fiction.