Fathom: A Collection of Short Stories

Abstract

This collection of short stories explores four different psychological disorders: post-traumatic stress disorder, impulse control disorder, substance abuse disorder, and bipolar disorder. The goal of this exploration is to expose a narrative of each disorder. By going into the lives of the different characters portrayed in the short stories, an insight into these disorders is presented to the reader. While an explanation of each disorder and how it occurs in each story is included in an afterward, each story subtly exposes a real world situation in which these disorders could appear and invites the reader to experience that world.