From author Carl Parsons, winner of Penmaster Global’s best short collection of 2025 for Town and Country, comes a new collection of literary stories—Eros and Order: Love That Creates and Destroys. In this collection you’ll encounter:

• A wife who deserts her husband and young children for a life of perfect freedom, she thinks.
• A teen fashion model who plots revenge against her father for the murder of her lover.
• A Detroit factory worker who falls for a Goth girl who warns him not to.
• A Moroccan immigrant who dies in the tough streets of Napoli.
• A married couple mired in a Babel of their own making.
• A folktale about a heroic woman and the Underground Railroad in West Virginia.