Ordinary Unhappiness

by Howard Scott

Each story in this collection tries to locate an elemental truth, sometimes minor, sometimes so profound it can’t be spoken. The reader recognizes familiar people, from the self-deluding hairdresser in “The Tirade,” to the crude laborer in “The Site,” to the impressionable teenage girl in “Why I Quit the Dairy Shack,” to the embittered single guy in “An Old Fling.” The scenes are ordinary, commonplace. Each protagonist discovers something about himself/herself.

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2007