Sharon Solwitz writes with a daring and perception that rivals D. H. Lawrence. When pursuing the inner thoughts and secrets of her characters, Solwitz doesn"t glance away, keeping her characters under a spotlight that illuminates them in life"s universal ironies and in their own inescapable quirks. In "Blood," a woman falls obsessively in love with a donor whose blood she collected, but whose name she never learned. And in "Editing," a secret that a lover insists his partner reveal about her previous marriage becomes the lover"s own weapon ... or excuse. Reprinted from such luminary magazines as the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Other Voices, and the Pushcart Prize, Solwitz"s stories are exceptional.