Five Stories, Ten Lives, is a collection of short fiction that depicts women and men, their interpersonal relationships with all the beauty and blemishes. These stories are sometimes a brief snapshot of much more complicated lives, and some of them play out over months, and even decades. We see love and tenderness, triumphs and failures, strengths and weaknesses, the ordinary and the absurd. Through it all we see that life isn't always simple and isn't always good. It's unpredictable, complex, wonderful and bizarre. These five stories touch all these aspects of life and so much more. They're compelling stories which capture life, for better and worse, I hope you enjoy reading them.