Title: Rocketflower
Description: The five stories in this collection explore the burgeoning relationship between a parent and a child. Full of messy tenderness and complicated hurts, the mosaic shaped by these stories reveals a broader overstory that wonders what it means to be human. Narrated by an often perplexed, sometimes agitated, and always curious new father, each of these tales is a message pressed into wet cement, a sigil knifed into the trunk of a tree, initials tagged in spray paint on the side of an old delicatessen; language misused to get to the untidy truth of things. The result is a work that is earnest, raw, whimsical, and furiously honest.

Winner of the C&R Press 2021 Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Contest.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), autofiction, parenthood