Tiny Shoes Dancing and Other Stories

“Jody calculates the moments by counting her heartbeats. There is still time, if Adeline appears now, for no one to notice a thing. A few more seconds and it will be too late.” A mother aches to reach her ballet-crazed teenage daughter. A boy becomes the object of a nanny’s obsession. A woman measures love, loss, and achievement by earrings misplaced. A man enters an unusual relationship with his wife… and a dog. In this collection of short fiction from novelist Audrey Kalman, you’ll find characters struggling to make sense of the world and their place in it, with results sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, and always relatable.