Illustrations and simple text provide reassurance that a boy and those who care for him will be kept safe, no matter what.

Jamie Kelly finds math a difficult subject at school, much to the dismay of her accountant father.

"With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows--those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to...