Black Light: Stories

With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire¿s darkest hollows amp;mdash; those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood.

Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt in the mind with a primal howl amp;mdash; sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise.