With a title like Shenanigans!, I was expecting a lot of mischief in this collection of nine short stories by Joseph Michael Owens. I was surprised, then, to find a touching relationship at the center of the stories, a connection warmly rendered between the book’s main character, Ben and his wife, Anna. Commonplace becomes setup…
Peter Tieryas (Liu) is the author of
Watering Heaven. He alternates between VFX for movies and writing when he’s not traveling with his wife. His stories are published or forthcoming in the
Bitter Oleander,
Camera Obscura,
decomP,
The Evergreen Review, and
The Indiana Review.