Author Ed Novak reads excerpts from short stories collected in "The Coronavirus Chronicles."
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“The Coronavirus Chronicles” Captures Memories, Feelings of Pandemic in Eight Short Stories
From the author of Confessions of a Lapsed Altar Boy comes a collection of short stories exploring the effects of pandemic on everyday lives, the frustrations that lovers and friends navigate in their searches for fairytale endings, and the impact of time and memory on our perceptions of happiness.
Cooties v. Coronavirus
None of us children could define -- much less see -- cooties. However, we understood that other children could be “infected” with cooties if they got too close to someone with cooties. And we never could explain the origin of cooties, other than through a simple declaration: “you have cooties.”