The stories in Eliot Parker’s “Table for Two” are linked by the sense that all of these characters have inserted themselves–and others–into the worst human positions available: to follow each of these exquisite narratives is to land solidly on the best unease there is. When a man’s dementia causes him to make a run for it, his daughter discovers a part of his past she’d never quite touched. A woman aiming to hold the perfect wedding escapes her rock only to land in a very hard place. Two men cruise down a river, navigating guilt and memory, looking for the sons who have themselves disappeared on a fishing trip. These stories both delight and displace.