There is something about the stories in Erika Krouse’s latest collection, Save Me, Stranger.
When you read a story from this book, you expect to encounter characters facing a conflict. That conflict is the essence of a story.
In Erika Krouse’s stories, the characters are in extraordinary settings—like the coldest town on the planet.
They are in unusual situations—a piano salesman who tries to sell a totally unsellable piano.
They experience things that mark their lives forever—a shooting at a convenience store, a stay at a haunted bed and breakfast.
But nothing here reads as “strange” — not as in surreal or implausible ways.

Life is weird. We really do try to survive in a world that puts us in situations that are beyond our control and sometimes even beyond our own imagination.
So how do we live? How do we fall in love, make a living, have any modicum of hope, find our way through this reality and survive it?
Erika Krouse offers us visceral, haunting, achingly beautiful stories for the journey.
Learn more about Erika Krouse here.
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