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A formerly close friend passes on the street without looking up, and a college friend arrives at a dorm room and refuses to leave. A couple on the rocks take a vacation in a sunny clime, and another couple, older and wiser, headout for a weekend in New England. A working-class schoolboy looks for friends in his new neighborhood, and a middle-class teen learns something else during his piano lesson. A medical student gets close to a girl with cystic fibrosis, and a family doctor loses his equilibrium when he treats an attractive but abused young woman. Such are the stories Michael Glenn recounts in Selected Stories, selected from the many he wrote between from 1958 and 2015, beginning in college and continuing through medical school and his career as a physician and psychiatrist, factory worker and community activist.

Michael Glenn is a retired physician and political activist. His first book, Trouble on the Hill and Other Stories, was published in 1979 by Liberator Press (Chicago). He founded The Radical Therapist journal in the 1970s, co- authored Repression or Revolution: Psychotherapy in the U.S. Today, and edited the collection Voices from the Asylum. He is also author of On Diagnosis: A Systemic Approach and co-author (with Barry Dym) of Couples: Exploring and Understanding the Cycles of Intimate Relationships. His stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, The Nassau Literary Magazine, and the anthology Young American Writers.