AT FIRST glance, Paul O’Reilly’s debut collection of short stories seems issue-driven. 

A PENNSYLVANIA woman who secretly gave birth in her bath five times, killed one of the babies and hid all five bodies in a closet, was sentenced to the maximum 20 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder.

A Pennsylvania woman who said she secretly gave birth in her bath five times, killed one of the babies and hid all five bodies in a closet, was sentenced to the maximum 20 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder.