This collection of five short stories includes "In the Rooms," a flash-fiction story about a man seeking any kind of human contact in his extremely lonely life; "Berg," a story about a man hunting ice bergs in Newfoundland while trying to come to terms with the death of his brother; "Last Call," a story told in dialogue about a man trying to find six people willing to be his pallbearers; "Fishing Our Past," a tale of a father and son growing closer while on a backpacking trip in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains; and the title story, "The Socratic Method," an intense story about a man's dark, criminal past catching up to him in a brutal way.

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