Mallisa Blaan

Poor middle men. What's the first thing you think of to complete this sentence? Let's --------- the middle men. Yup, eliminate! Or cut out! These short stories are drama, not comedy. All deal with men in the middle of the pack. Maybe it's the basketball team that they're so-so at. Or they graduated from college but have failure to launch. Or they launched, but crash landed. Or they're middle aged and realized this is as far as they're going to go. They must be lucky at cards because they're unlucky at love. The title comes from a story (in the middle as another reviewer points out!) where a guy sees two versions of himself--the young fraud and the old pro--and he's currently standing in the middle. As others are doing, I'm reading this paper version that I bought from a library book sale (remember those?) years ago and moved...another one off my TBR list. See, he doesn't look too happy. 1451649312 No one aspires to be a “middle man” â€...