Literary Fiction
A Look At The Worlds We Hide
Peter Allen Weiss · Published September 12, 2017
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.
Rose Friedlander agrees to tell her story, and what she reveals is deeply troubling. At its center is a belief she has never been able to release: that her father was responsible for the deaths of her twin sisters and her mother.
Hers is a world of extraordinary privilege, the kind that is admired from a distance and rarely examined up close. Peter Allen Weiss uses that distance as his subject, tracing the quiet distance between what a powerful family shows the world and what it keeps behind closed doors, and how easily wealth can conceal vulnerability rather than protect against it.
Told through the intimate frame of a life being written down, The Ghost Writer: Rose's Story is a study of trust and deception, of the private arrangements families make with the truth, and of the human behavior that survives inside a house where secrecy is the household language. It asks what it costs to be believed, and what it costs to keep silent.
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.