The Lost Ones: A Book of Short Stories

We all lose something, but what we lose is not always lost.

In The Lost Ones, eleven stories trace the lives of characters navigating the spaces left behind—by grief, by time, by the longing for connection. A woman, grieving over the death of her grandmother, finds solace at her daughter’s birthday party. A man traveling through Europe stumbles into a lost love in Dresden. An elderly man loosens the last knot of his past in the most unexpected way. A teenage girl plays with fire to feel seen.

From the Spanish Quarter of Naples to a Parisian café, from the streets of New York to the forests of the Czech Republic, these poignant stories move through memory, love, regret, and the small salvations we never see coming. Each distinct voice reveals how loss — of people, of place, of self — often clears the ground for something new to take root.

With emotional depth, tenderness, and flashes of magic, The Lost Ones explores how, in the wake of loss, we often find something we didn’t know we were looking for.