Pockets is a story of desolation, quiet triumph, and public storage. Winner of the 2010 Hook Short Fiction Contest, juried by John Grisham, who described the piece as “a gritty slice of life.”
Michelle Damiani is an author, freelance writer, and clinical psychologist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, a memoir of the year she and her family lived in Spello, Italy, and the Murder in an Italian Village mystery series, set in a small Umbrian town near Assisi. She also writes about Italy, travel, food, and books at michelledamiani.com.