Science fiction

Overview "CRUELTIES OF OMISSION is my attempt to grapple with questions of grief and time. In these five sometimes-speculative stories, characters inflict, wrestle with, and are products of pain. Adult siblings bring to life a simulacrum of their recently deceased father. A new technology offers fast, easy means to settle up with regret. A mother struggles to comprehend why her long-absent son won't come home to her. They're lost, they've lost, they're losing, they're losers—pushing back against a...