Tales of Grief and Healing: A Complete Duology
Two heartrending tales of love, loss, acceptance, and finding life again, now combined into the same printed collection!
Two heartrending tales of love, loss, acceptance, and finding life again, now combined into the same printed collection!
A rebellious 15-year-old abandons her baby to work a job in Portugal, leaving the child to be raised by its grandmother. Across fifteen years and two continents, three generations of mothers and daughters navigate fraught relationships, and define ‘family’ on their own terms.
A young girl looks to a hermit for wisdom when an enemy appears from the sea, and her family are torn apart by the spectre of war.
When a wall collapses on their thirteen-year-old daughter, a married couple place their faith in differing solutions, pushing their relationship to the breaking point.
A middle-aged woman in Louisiana is diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, must get her affairs in order, say good-bye to her loved ones, and somehow try to exist for the next month.
Dr. KT Winslow is unmarried and in her forties. It’s been over 80 years since KT’s enigmatic grandmother Annie left town. Did Hillview ever forgive what she’d done? What followed that autumn afternoon by the old stone wall? Annie is gone now, and it’s all on KT.
In 1957, a runaway teen searches for her real father on the midwest dirt-track circuit just before the first national Championship race.
Siz-year-old Belinda knows her mother isn’t like the other mothers who gather at the school gates. She’s different somehow, and Belinda intends to collect all the nuggets of information to figure out the mystery.
A circus performer is caught between riding trick horses and dealing with the tarot magie his Romanian mother gifted to him. When an evil entity targets him for death, he must learn to accept his mother’s magie if he is ever going to defeat it.
A hospital nurse and her prisoner of war husband endure the ravages of war while Hitler’s Panzers storm the Polish border. Infused with real-life anecdotes recounted by the author’s father, a survivor of a German POW camp liberated by Patton’s army in the final days of the war.
An anthology of 53 memorable flash fiction stories, ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.