Spite: Or Wounds That Wouldn’t Heal

This is a remarkable collection of rich, up-to-date, and astonishingly original short stories, a body of ten unsparing and implacable narratives, each with a different setting and plot - the reprisal for a bitter event in the fourth grade; a hot dog vendor’s one nemesis in New York City; an account of several hair-raising murders in Maine; a prep school teacher plagued by a revengeful former student, and several other tales (but not all) culled from his razor-sharp memory of hurtful personal moments based on his own life. This is a book to be placed fittingly with two other assemblages of his truly memorable short stories, his Early Stories (2021) and Later Stories (2022).