Light Remains: Three Stories

Light Remains contains three short works of fiction that examine dark subjects with a touch of levity. In Celebrity-Prayers.net, a Boston teenager with an Adderall addiction hires a B-list celebrity to teach him how to pray as he tries to win the affection of a classmate. But even as the prayers seem to be working, the celebrity's depression causes the teenager to question the nature of fame. In Can You Hear Me Now?, a cellphone button designer treks though Seattle in search of his lost iPhone. And the longer he's away from his beloved device, the more he is overwhelmed by the isolation and alienation he experiences without it. In The Last Day on Earth of Zelta Jones, Starwoman, a middle-aged line cook from Blue Mountain, Alabama believes she's been sent from another planet to teach humans about space travel. After years of being ignored and ridiculed, she decides to take her own life. But her last day on earth proves much more complicated than she expected.