Dying Light and Other Stories Book

As with any collection of stories, I found myself preferring some to others. But, in the end, I was glad I stuck with it, especially for the last four stories. Hays' stories are character driven, and often find people in the middle of some dramatic change in the course of their lives, as often as not for the worse. There's a pathos that undergirds the whole collection, but that isn't to say the stories are without humor. They are though, many of them, informed by a frank acknowledgment of the inevitability of death. I find quite a few of the characters and their lives still bumping around in my head. And that's as good a mark as any of a good story.