Susan Sontag is mostly remembered as a brilliant essayist -inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life,she also wrote short stories which wrestled with ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. Allegories,parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life. Stories collects all of her short fiction for the first time. From one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century.