Hope Lies in Less is a darkly intimate collection of short stories that explore what it is to be human. The characters within these stories confront moments ... not huge moments, but small bits of time and individuality in which perspective is transformed. Themes include personal crisis, loneliness, existentialism, the nature of memory, time's passage, aging, depression, suicide, interpersonal relationships, parenting, marriage, loss, fear, and epiphany. Hope Lies in Less is about the meaning of life.