Are You Okay?

In Are You Okay?, Alan Rice offers a collection of provocative tales that explore the unseen forces that shape our lives. But the stories do not hand us easy answers. A cynical businessman encounters a lonely panhandler whose bizarre story shakes his complacency. A novelist is confronted by a mysterious child who insists that he write her story. Two teenagers make an unexpected, unsettling connection at a protest rally. Each story immerses readers in moments of quiet terror, eerie beauty, and psychological depth. The characters rub the edge of our reality—haunted, desperate, seeking, and loving. With sharp prose and a keen eye for the uncanny as well as the beautiful, Rice gives us stories that are certain to startle, amuse, disturb, and, in the end, move us.