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In this story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, an immigrant working at an amusement park faces a daunting, dramatic decision when he loses one of his dental crowns. "Having a choice," Maxim realizes, "only meant he was going to make the wrong choice."

In a story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a young man en route to study in Italy sits on the plane as it prepares for take-off and receives a text message that his ailing father has finally passed away. Overwhelmed and grief-stricken, he finds himself immobile. As Andrew faces a choice between leaving to tend to his mother and continuing to the escape of Italy, pretending the message was too late, Moffett delivers penetrating and brutally honest insight into a moment of paralyzing indecision.

"English Made Easy," a story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, explores the persistence of grief in the life of a single mother and recent widow. Moffett''s story is a moving meditation on how we process loss—both within ourselves and with those around us.

In the title story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a young, struggling writer discovers that his father has begun to publish short stories—good ones, too—under the son''s own name. The result is a brilliant and occasionally hilarious look at the meeting point of creative anxiety and the combustible father-son relationship.

In this story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a honeymooning couple in Arizona faces the vast future ahead of them—and the immediate problem of a dead animal stinking up their rental car. This meditation on marriage, commitment, and all that we give to and keep from those we love comes with equal parts heartbreak and bone-dry humor.

"In the Pines," from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, is the story of a thrice-widowed, seventy-something woman living in a retirement home on an old Civil War battlefield. When a soldier wanders in from the backyard and befriends her, she believes she''s found herself a new man.

In this story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, an elderly, declining John D. Rockfeller waits in his wheelchair for an airshow to begin, pondering the tension between eking out every last moment of life and experiencing, for the first time in a long time, a moment of genuine adventure.

"The Big Finish," a story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, takes readers on board a cruise ship with Hayes, a directionless thirty-something who takes a job as the host of the ship''s bird shows for children. In his new role, he develops a strange and unexpected relationship with a fellow employee—and with the birds themselves.

In this story from Kevin Moffett''s dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a single father with an alcohol problem becomes an unlikely tragic hero. Always acting against his good intentions—both before the story begins, with his ex-wife and during it, with his fourteen-year-old daughter—Lugo is an earnest, doomed protagonist in which we will all see something of ourselves.