Communion with the Dead

"Communion with the Dead" first appeared in The Chariton Review in 2008, and it marks a shift in style for the author. It's set in a small village in Italy in the 1950s, which was a very different setting from virtually all of the author's previous stories. It also experiments with narrative style with insertions of stream of consciousness at various points. It's also the only story by the author that references opera.