Amazon.com description: Product Description: A snowy afternoon among friends. Parents-to-be, each with a different outlook on life. A bored high school student, looking for something better. Family secrets, finally and suddenly divulged. Copper and Stone is a collection of short stories that find truth and compassion in ordinary lives and circumstances turned inside out - by accident, by fate, by design. These twelve tales of melancholy, trepidation, and woe share space with wry humor and keen observations of the human spirit. Hope is never far from the surface... but the surface is often just out of reach.