Book excerpt: Debut collection of short stories by Jane V. Blunschi. 2017 Selection of the Cypress & Pine Series in Fiction by Yellow Flag Press. ""If these stories werenOt so intelligent, they would be guilty pleasures.OE NPadma Viswanathan, author of The Ever After of Ashwin Rao and The Toss of a Lemon OJane Blunschi doesnOt flinch in her storytelling...O NLucy Jane Bledsoe, author of A Thin Bright Line and The Big Bang Symphony OJane Blunschi is one of the sassiest writers I know. She goes deep, she goes darkEO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENRilla Askew, author ofEKind of Kin OFunny and tragic and leavened by faith, Understand Me, Sugar wages for hope.O NGeffrey Davis, author of Revising the Storm