With wit and tenderness, the short story collection What They Thought That Love Should Be explores intimate moments in the lives of men and women as they experience loves enigmas, contradictions, and consolations. A woman mourning the death of her husband refuses to part with her husbands remains keeping the urn with his ashes at her side. An art museum curator meets a severely depressed woman and shares with her a new found capacity for affection as they view his museums art collections. A terminally ill man pivots between memories of a long past trek through Europe with his wife and their final journey together as he faces death. Written with grace and empathy, the collections captivating stories embrace the possibilities of love as well as its limits.
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Ron Roth’s fiction and poetry have been published in literary magazines throughout the United States, including the Bellingham Review, South Dakota Review, The Lyric, Great River Review, The Panhandler, and The Mac Guffin. His short story, The Glittering Kingdom, was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The River Poets Journal. He published and edited the magazine The Four Guys Review and wrote and narrated a popular statewide weekly radio program on the arts for Nebraska Public Radio.
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