I met a young man Samuel almost three years ago. He told me a story I found hard to believe. He assured me it was true. Since then I know it to be. I have met almost his entire family. Samuel put me in touch with others he learned of over the years. I don't know how, I asked, he didn’t say.

They all have in one way or another committed incest. I doubted Samuel and others I talked to at first. I soon learned how naïve I was. Over the last three years I decided to put them to paper. There are ten stories in all. I started submitting...