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I recently published a book, 20 Short Ones, a collection of 20 short stories about the beginnings of relationships. To give you a sense of the flavor of it, here's a short excerpt from one of the stories titled "Patience."

Sure, patience is a virtue. But for Lissie Finkel, it was getting downright ridiculous.

She was thirty-seven and had wanted a baby (lots of them actually) and a husband, ever since she could remember. In fact, in first grade, Lissie got sent to the Principal’s Office for bringing her baby doll to class. Fast forward to junior high and she was still at it. This time, she got caught with back issues of Bride Magazine in her locker. Boy, did she catch holy-heck for that. And don’t get me started about high school.
It was senior year. Mid-April. Just after spring break and everyone was focused on the Prom. It was all anyone was talking about. In the halls. In the locker rooms. On the stair wells. In the cafeteria. Everywhere. The whole school had prom-on-the-brain. Including Lissie. Why would she be immune? She was all of five-feet, two-inches and holding, bright red hair – the color of actual carrots. Hazel eyes that you would die for.

Lissie was having a difficult time lining up a date for the prom because of an inexplicable drive to tell the truth. No matter what. And the ‘what’ in this case turned out to be going through high school dateless. But she solved her dilemma by going with Stefan Merkle, the school janitor. Stefan was 65 years of age and from the old country. He was proud of the fact that he was an authentic Swedish Jew. His Dad was from Stockholm and his Mom from Russia. Although he didn’t attend synagogue, he nonetheless was very spiritually minded and out of respect for his father, wore a yarmulke. Stefan had a thick head of snow-white hair and was a very good dancer. He also looked a lot like Michael Douglas, which didn’t hurt. And he had a definite sense of humor and was great at making small talk, which helped immensely when Stefan knocked on Lissie’s door and had to explain to her parents why a senior citizen Swede was taking their daughter out.

Besides her physical attractiveness, Lissie was a brain. Her most favorite topic happened to be Einstein’s theory of relativity. She had a poster of Einstein famed on her bedroom wall, right across from her bed so she saw it, first thing, when she got up every morning. It was the one with him riding a bicycle. A reminder that you could like quantum physics and still keep your sense of humor. She was known to start her day by sitting up, smiling and saying (out loud): “Good morning Albert! Let’s make it a great day!”
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If you like this preview, you can purchase 20 Short Ones at the Barnes & Noble or Amazon websites.
Here's the link to Barnes & Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/20-short-ones-dan-salerno/1117689549?ean=9781490805801

Here's the link to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/20-Short-Ones-Stories/dp/149080580X/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1389025297&sr=8-1&keywords=Dan+Salerno