Articles of Faith by Elizabeth Oness (Paperback, 2000) for sale online

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In her award-winning collection, Elizabeth Oness travels a vast emotional terrain, from the loss of incence to sexual betrayal to the helplessness of parents before their children. In Momentum, a woman carries the burden of a dead friend's secret for years until she finally decides to reveal it, only to discover that other, darker secrets still lie in wait. Rufus follows the quandary of a young man who is forced to choose between the affection of his girlfriend and his compassion for a homeless man who has taken up residence in his car. Articles of Faith is a collection of stories about silence and the complications that arise when a silence is kept too long or suddenly broken. As one narrator relates, I knew that life was full of these things which matter so ermously and make us what we are but remain unsaid because to voice them does t make them go away, and instead shakes everything around us apart.