Shards: Tiny Stories with Sharp Edges - Paperback
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In the space between a heartbeat and a breath, entire worlds exist. SHARDS captures these fleeting moments in a collection of micro-stories that cut straight to the bone of human experience.
A woman counts her child's breaths.
A man dies and leaves a geocache of wishes.
A child discovers there are no wrong roads home.
Here, handwriting becomes intimacy, scent becomes memory, and the gaps between words hold as much meaning as the words themselves. These are stories of toxic love and tender grace, of ghosts both literal and metaphorical, of the small apocalypses and quiet resurrections that shape our daily lives. Like shards of glass catching light, each piece reflects a different facet of what it means to be human-beautiful, dangerous, and impossibly fragile.
Jenny Maloney writes dark fiction her mother hates. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from CSU-Pueblo. Her work has been published internationally and appears, or is forthcoming in Dissections, All Worlds Wayfarer, NewSapiens, Across the Margins, and Shimmer. When she's not writing fiction, essays, or poetry, she's creating theater as a writer and performer in Colorado Springs.
She has produced, directed, written, and performed in some of the most innovative theater in Colorado Springs, including directing SET's all-female production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and a gender-swapped adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Over the past six years she has been involved, in some capacity, in over 20 productions.
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