A masterpiece collection of short stories, Dialect presents a series of gritty and heart wrenching tales of children and fathers, mothers and lovers, friends and fiends discovering the bounds of idealism and reality. A circus hand learns about the lengths to which love lends itself. A trapped boy learns about escape. Friends encounter demons. A chef falls prey to scheming. A father faces his nemesis. And a mother awaits the return of her husband beloved.

Dialect explores the way people construct common language to explain and cope with circumstances beyond the grasp of their comprehension. These stories plumb the depths of dark sacrileges.