Tells the stories of a man who spies on his wife, a crime victim who plots revenge, a divorced man who falls in love with a player on a women's softball team, and a spurned lover who plays a trick on his rival
Daniel Curley was an American short story writer and novelist. He was a professor of English at the University of Illinois and editor of Accent, a literary magazine. He received the O'Henry Award in 1965 and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1985.
I'm clearly biased, given that I took the only writing class of my life from Curley at the University of Illinois in the mid 1980s, but this is a quiet and beautiful collection that tells the stories of frustrated and regretful lives.