Frogs

"Val's mother always told her, 'You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.'" For Val, what's absent from the question seems more important: what do you do if you don't want a prince at all?
The stories in Red Plaid Shirt span twenty years of Diane Schoemperlen's challenging and innovative writing. Told in her fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, they offer a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect.