Fiction. In this provocative and disquieting debut story collection, Daniel Scott portrays loss and the inexact communication of feelings between family members and among friends with a relentless honesty. "Daniel Scott's stories live for those occasions in which language morphs into something dangerous, taking on a life of its own. With wit, nerve, and a disarming depth of feeling, SOME OF US HAVE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING prowls through the imagination like some dark, shining animal" - Paul Lisicky. "Daniel Scott's writing is terrific. Only Annie Proulx is flatout tough like this" - Jonathan Williams.