Carl Parsons

Faced with rejection by husband, who became an invalid fighting in the Second Iraqi War, and the increasing pressures of her career as a journalist and single mother, Rita Collins nears a breaking point. Yet, even as she must face a web of corruption and deceit all around her, including her ow...

In this collection of short stories—Town and Country: Voices from the Mid-Ohio Valley—the reader encounters ordinary people struggling with a variety of problems that threaten to change their lives: an elderly widower confronting a life of regrets, precocious children confronting separation, a mi...