Tonic Immobility

Tonic Immobility is a collection of short stories that captures the most human of experiences: from fear and guilt, to hope and love. In each piece, the author delves into characters of all ages, genders, and life experience, from a young girl coping with the death of her mother, to an adult male suspiciously caught up in a local murder, or a ten-year-old boy's brush with mortality and first love. Not confined to region, each story captures a bit of Americana, evoking areas from the foothills of Pennsylvania to warm Alabama farm towns, moving through New England and Texas, with some stories settling into a kind of "every town" pastiche that allows the story to transcend locale. This eclectic connection explores us in our darker, more vulnerable moments, illuminating the inner world we all experience, but tend to forget as we move through this world day-to-day, disconnected, but alert. Alive.