SO WE CAN GLOW Stories

Delivering 42 beautifully crafted short stories, an ensemble of talented narrators expresses the desires and emotions of the mostly female characters as they navigate family, friendship, and romantic attachments. The charming Southern settings in many of these brief works come through in the narrators' delicious accents and soft tones. A unity of theme and intensity binds the stories. In "Winona Forever," Cassandra Morris conjures the intense friendship of two adolescent girls. In "Fast as You," Christine Lakin strikes the perfect notes of a nanny's erotic longing for her employer, a musician. In the refreshingly joyful "Get Fay and Bertie," Lakin and Morris depict a mother and daughter whose love shines in their email correspondence. M.J. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2020]