Compositions for the Young and Old
by Paul Tremblay

Description:
A jar that holds your deepest secrets and fears. A fireman confronts his past while trying to save a group of children who have fallen through thin ice. A preacher's daughter goes to fantastic and desperate lengths to write a book like Mark Twain. A man who cures people's pain and sadness through laughter finds his greatest challenge in a little boy. In this debut collection by Chizine editor Paul G. Tremblay, there are twenty stories following the chronological arc of a human life. Twenty stories about the young and old, and everyone in-between.

Introduction by Stewart O'Nan.

Contents:

Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas
Perfect
Role Models
The Pond
Reaching
Lies and Skin
City Pier
Dole as Ribbit
The Harlequin and the Train
Cold
The Stairs
With More Than Eyes
Perception
Annabel Leigh
Walls
4'33
Hackin' at the Peach
So Many Things Left Out
The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat
The Jar
Colonel Evans' Last Mission