Baghdad on the Wabash — Larry Crane

Unconventional short stories and plays that capture a slice of the lives of quirky couples in prose and snappy dialogue. A feisty married pair return to familiar ground to rekindle romance. Veteran actors respond to a challenge to find the magic of Hepburn and Tracy. Supermarket shoppers overcome preconceptions of the boundaries of friendship over a bottle of sauce. Ambitious real estate entrepreneurs try to separate the fire from the smoke of a deal. A forest preserve provides the playground for negotiating the terrain of a relationship. A country frat boy learns something in his week in New York City. The collection culminates in a full length play Baghdad on the Wabash in which a prickly fifteen-year-old girl punctures the crust of her elders when they gather on the banks of the Wabash River to receive the remains of their missing soldier.