"Tod Goldberg's stories are not like faceted jewels. They are like glinting barbed wire, actually, roped across the field where you are reading, racing, wondering what's next, and then pierced with longing, regret, or revelation. His new collection kept me reading like that -- racing to find out what would happen next to these people only Tod Goldberg could create." --Susan Straight "Tod Goldberg is a gifted writer, a surveyor of the soul, and Other...