Dry Rain

Each story is a slice of a character's life. The reader joins a life in progress. You really feel like you know the characters in just a few pages. Fromm is the best short story writer out there.

Initmate look inside the head of a rural American man as he encounters a variety of real life situations. Characters laid out such that the reader can quickly identify with and "be" the character as he finds himself weighing the ramifications of his possible actions. Pete Fromm does a "deep dive" very quickly into his characters and allows you into his head for a slice of time.

These short stories are all well rended depictions of life and how it sometimes seems to go offtrack. There is a sense of sadness that permeates the book, including the title story, about a father who is not really kidnapping his son, and says to his ex-wife-I had a life-so sad. Many good stories, with well developed characters who connect. There is an echo of Raymond Carver, moving the characters from New England to the Pacific Northwest. I have just finished reading Indian Creek Chronicles, a memoir by the same writer, and it is really worth reading, sweet, innocent, honest and revealing.