Fiction.
While loss of all kinds permeates these compact stories, it is the tenderness and longing that attaches itself to the reader and propels them t.
In these pages, Brian Phillip Whalen reaches deep into the throat of anxiety with a graceful hand and understated humor as he confronts mothers and best friends dying slow or sudden deaths, disappointing vacations, and vanishing sisters.
Semiotic Love [Stories] draws upon symbols and objects to explore the loss of relationships.
Fiction