Save Me, Stranger: Stories

"It’s likely that we’ve all, at one time or another, wanted to save someone or be saved – sometimes both – and in these stories Erika Krouse explores how complicated, and maybe even impossible, those desires are to fulfill. From a pair of terminally ill combat veterans who become angels of death, to the mayor of the coldest town on Earth, Krouse’s narrators are people navigating what they want, what others want for them and what they think they deserve. My favorite kind of short story doesn’t resolve neatly, but rather leaves me with a lingering image, idea or possibility, and Krouse’s Save Me, Stranger absolutely fits the bill."