I recently wrote a series of columns and very short stories about a variety of subjects but noticed I had a preponderance, about fifty, that concerned romance, and that they fit into one of four categories – dating, swingers, issues, and breakups. For additional insights I recruited a dozen longer tales about adventurous men and women from my broad short story collection The Bold Investor.
This new love-focused volume is titled Tales of Romance and examines entertaining but stressful problems about people merely doing what nature mandates. They seek love or companionship on dating websites and meet people at work or on the phone or even at the southern border. They marry or date and quarrel with each other or former spouses unwilling to step aside. They tire of each other and seek intimacy wherever and however they can find it. They break up and reconcile and divorce and do so in ways reasonable and outrageous. That’s how it is in romance.