I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

A. At this time he married his first wife and started a family. Dubus's collections include: Separate Flights (1975) Adultery and Other Choices (1977) Finding a Girl in America (1980) The Times Are Never So Bad (1983) Voices from the Moon (1984) The Last Worthless Evening (1986) Selected Stories (1988) Broken Vessels (1991) Dancing After Hours (1996) and Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998).