The Work
Novels and short fiction concerned with human complexity, difficult choices, and the worlds people keep out of view. Descriptions are being added as they are confirmed.
A Look At The Worlds We Hide
Peter Allen Weiss · September 12, 2017 · Literary Fiction
Rose Friedlander has a story she has carried for a long time, and it begins with a belief she cannot set down: that her father was responsible for the deaths of her twin sisters and her mother. Behind a life of extraordinary wealth lies a far more fragile reality.
A Fiction Outtakes Series
Peter Allen Weiss · June 16, 2019 · Literary Fiction
Life goes on after Ohio State and the plea deal Bill Wynn accepted. Now a capable, confident cook, Bill moves through a world that has narrowed around him — and his connection with broiler cook Robert Moman continues to reshape the direction of both their lives.
A Fiction Outtakes Series
Peter Allen Weiss · June 8, 2018 · Literary Fiction
A hard experience at Ohio State University ends in a plea agreement, and Bill Wynn is left with a police record and a degree he cannot use. Then he meets Robert Moman, a broiler cook, and an unexpected connection begins to change the direction of both their lives.
A Tender Short Story
Peter Allen Weiss · August 30, 2016 · Short Fiction
Minnie Katz is seventy, shy, and inexperienced. Arthur Goldman is sixty-five, newly retired, divorced, and socially awkward. They meet by chance at a McDonald's — and an ordinary hour becomes the beginning of an unexpected human connection.
Peter Allen Weiss · April 6, 2016 · Contemporary Fiction
Newly retired and alone, Murph turns over the life he has had and the people in it he has loved and lost. Among them is Carla, whose own life took directions he never followed. Dark, offbeat, and often funny, this is a novel about memory and the pull of the past.