Do Not Disturb

The short stories in this collection explore the nature of the disturbed or fragile narrator. I wanted to create characters who were troubled by events or people in their lives, who were haunted and who occupied desperate and cruel worlds. Their pathologies may be malevolent or the result of prior traumas, but they all occupy an obsessive or dysfiinctional reality, from which the stories hinge. Obsessive love is a recurring theme, as is the inability to escape one's past, regardless of time and distance. I wanted to write in a lyrical and literary style without pretension: stories that were at once tender and brutal, that messed with the mind and broke the heartFaculty of Art