Rita Plush
Fiction / short stories / urban family life / historical
ALTERATIONS is a short story collection featuring stories of love and grief and family life. This a gem of beautiful writing and tells of emotionally touching characters, as evidenced by the comments from advance readers...
~PRAISE FOR ALTERATIONS~
Among all the touching insights into a past that seems to haunt these
stories by Rita Plush, I hear a character say, “Tell me you understand.”
Anxieties of not knowing or of not knowing how to make the other person
understand tell the upsetting truths of these vivid fictions and create their
curious momentum.
–Joseph McElroy, author of Night
Soul and Other Stories and the forthcoming Cannonball
Rita Plush’s short stories hold you on the edge of heartbreak. She
writes eloquently of plucky children who have not been able to experience
enough of childhood, but who weave tenderness out of whatever emotional threads
they can string together.
–Maureen Brady, author of Folly
and Ginger’s Fire
Rita Plush has written stories which deal with the evolution of one
man. Outwardly, he deals with problems in teaching teenage boys and inwardly,
with himself and his failures. Her stories are well written and draw in the
reader; we will certainly be open to publishing her stories in the future.
–Elizabeth Kircos, Fiction/Non-Fiction Editor, The MacGuffin
All these pieces feel so immediate and alive – the voices, every detail
– like memoir. They’re intimate, and funny, and full of surprises. They’re big –
about The Big Subjects, love, death, sex, loss, longing. A number of these
stories are told from the point of view of a young child, sharp-eyed, all
senses on high alert. I especially enjoyed “Love, Mona.” The intimate,
beautiful portrayal of grief and hope ends with a wordless gesture so tender
and expressive, I will never forget it.
–Mary Azrael, Editor, Passager
Good and thoughtful stories that win the reader over. More truth than a
reality show, and more vivid than most fiction. The wants, needs, satisfactions
– and, yes, disappointments – of the characters are recognizable from our own
stories.
–Phil Wagner, Editor/Publisher, Iconoclast
ALTERATIONS is available now in ebook and print at Amazon, and ebook at Smashwords and Barnes & Noble online!
