Empty Bed Blues: Stories

The fifteen stories of George Garrett’s Empty Bed Blues (his eighth book-length collection) are vintage Garrett—no two alike—with each moving, one way and another, in new and daring directions. His stories are deeply concerned with the old verities of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters who come to life and command our attention.

Diversity is the key word for Garrett’s short fiction. He works in every known form and invents a few himself. In “A Story Goes with I...