Four-Letter Words

SHORTLISTED for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Award SHORTLISTED for the 2017 ReLit Award for Short Ficiton A Foreword Reviews ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards finalist The award-winning stories in Four-letter Words feature people longing for something they’ve lost and can’t quite find. Funny, sad, or funny-sad, the characters in this collection are all haunted by one four letter word of another: love, hate, lust, or loss. A father is searching for a son who is missing in more ways than one, a young girl hangs out in hospitals to see and know there's pain greater than hers, a young boy is digging a hole to China to escape his reality, two young girls pull off a scam that costs them everything, a woman learns lucid dreaming techniques to spend time with her dream boyfriend in her dreams, a mysterious neighbour lessens a boy's loss before getting lost himself, a man clings to a buoy at sea and a life spiraling out of control, a hitman has a change of heart (and target), and young boy hides away from danger ... where no one can possibly find hind, and more.