In this debut collection of stories, Jim Breslin explores the soul of suburbia; the disenfranchised and the desperate. The characters in these twenty-one stories struggle to mend relationships and find redemption. A man is tempted by memories when his drunk ex-wife pays a surprise visit. A couple wrestles with their fruitless attempts to have children. An eccentric homeowner issues a series of comical concerns to his lawn care company. A husband tests the reciprocity of his wife’s love only to find himself in the throes of a dangerous free fall. Sometimes funny, often sad, the unsettling stories in Elephant portray the suburban landscape of loneliness and hope.
Jim Breslin was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the suburban town of Media, PA. His first collection of stories, Elephant, is a mix of short stories, flash fiction and prose poems about the loneliness and hope found in suburbia. His fiction has been published in Metazen and Think Journal. Some pieces appeared on Fictionaut in slightly different form. Jim is also the founder and emcee of the West Chester Story Slam, a monthly storytelling event in downtown West Chester. He lives in West Chester, PA with his wife and two sons.
