Derek Updegraff\'s latest collection of fifteen short stories, Pup Et Cetera , continues his exploration of fictional characters whose lives are fascinating and completely unexpected.
Consider the man who holds "a bag of ice between his hands because he\'s the poor bastard who grabbed the hot potato." There is, in this book, a pulse of familiari.
Take, for example, the wife who cartwheels and backflips in the living room or the two men in "Husky" who hug and sob and console one another.
Derek Updegraff\'s latest collection of fifteen short stories, Pup Et Cetera , continues his exploration of fictional characters whose lives are fascinating and completely unexpected