You?ve probably heard about the man Dick Cheney shot, but what if he wasn?t the only one? ? Ian Davis is a loner; obsessive compulsive, and a recovering alcoholic. But when a homeless man ? who resembles actor Gary Busey ? starts harassing him, he resorts to dangerous old habits. ? Kenny, a former sitcom star, is a veteran comedian whose career nose-dives after a damaging video goes viral. ? In these eighteen stories we also meet: a distraught husband who experiences heartbreak and salvation after a texting teenager changes his life; a man who returns to his hometown to find his first love stacking jars in Costco; a western sheriff who confronts a pedophile, and his own past; and a successful attorney who abandons his career to play the iPad guitar. ? Unexpected, humorous, sometimes dark, and surprisingly heartfelt, these award-winning tales explore the secret life of men as they pass into adulthood, middle age, and old age, confronting lust, pain, guilt, bewilderment, and mortality. The collection fearlessly distills for the reader tinctures of joy, pain, madness, heartbreak, greed, and other components of