Remembrance and Regrets

Almost every story in this remarkable collection deals with someone on the run. They’re running away from or they’re running back to, but no one is standing still. Make no mistake, there’s nothing static about these stories. The pacing is breakneck, the tension sometimes unbearable, the action swift and decisive. The settings are sleazy bars and two-bit flops and alleys that smell of puke and piss. The characters are not the kind of people most of us would admit to knowing. They long ago forfeited their souls. They’re haunted—some quite literally—by the past, by deeds done or left undone, by lovers lost, by dreams stillborn.