Bitter Lips

20+ stories. No easy endings.Moments from ending her life on a bridge, a woman is offered a strange proposition that has nothing to do with saving her. A taxi driver is offered $5,000 to sleep with a client's wife on their anniversary night, and neither man gets what he expects. A couple's breakup unravels over an order of fries, one savage joke at a time.Bitter Lips is a short story collection of dark comedy, moral compromise, and characters who make the wrong choice for reasons that make sense to them. These are stories about desire, money, power, and the ugly choices people make when no one's watching. It's told in sharp, grounded dialogue.If you like literary fiction that's funny, morally messy, ironic, and built around a sting in the tail - this collection is for you.Content note: This isn't a children's book.