Signed Confessions

Guilt and a desperate need to repent drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker’s dark (and often darkly funny) stories: • A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazine. • A faithless husband abandons his family and joins a support group for lost souls. • A merciless prosecuting attorney grapples with the suicide of his gay son. • An aging misanthrope must make amends to five former victims. • An egoistic naval hero is haunted by apparitions of his dead wife and a mysterious little girl. The seven tales in Signed Confessions measure how far guilty men will go to obtain a forgiveness no one can grant but themselves.