Literary Fiction
A Fiction Outtakes Series
Peter Allen Weiss · Published June 8, 2018
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.
Bill Wynn's time at Ohio State University went badly, and the plea agreement he accepted followed him out the door. What remains is a police record, a degree the professional world will not let him use, and the daily arithmetic of a life that has to be rebuilt from a lower floor.
What he finds instead of a career is a kitchen — and Robert Moman, a broiler cook whose own circumstances brought him into Bill's path. Neither man is looking for the other. The connection that forms between them is unlikely, unsentimental, and consequential enough to change the direction of both their lives.
The first volume of the Fiction Outtakes series, Bill Wynn: The First Hundred is written in tight, unglamorous scenes that let character do the work. It is a literary, suspenseful portrait of what happens to an ordinary man after the door to the expected life has closed, and of the people he finds on the other side of it.
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 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.