A COLLECTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES by Matthew Schmieman is a group of flash fiction contains stories about the nature of relationships and how they build us as humans. In "Tower Climbing" two adventurers who are doing the job they are assigned travel throughout a mysterious dungeon. In "Cooking Lesson" two teens help their friend overcome her desire to do good by her dead mother as an adult. In "Meetup" two book people come together and discuss books and flirt haphazardly with each other.