Artifacts and Other Stories explores the joys and limitations of love, the coming together and breaking apart of relationships. Desire, longing, memory, marriage, betrayal, adultery, aging, illness, loss, and fresh starts dominate lives. Vibrant, deeply human characters wrestle with profound changes in their closest relationships and in their own emotional inner worlds. Marriages are sustained or end as secrets are kept or discovered, and as more is revealed, it becomes evident that the past lies just below the surface of the present. Friendship brings comfort, and love appears in unexpected places. These fourteen stories portray familiar relationships—between lovers, spouses, parents and children, and friends––as well as the often surprising choices that we may wait a lifetime for, finally to find on our doorstep.