{"product_id":"shards-tiny-stories-with-sharp-edges-9798232566449","title":"Shards: Tiny Stories with Sharp Edges","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the space between a heartbeat and a breath, entire worlds exist. \u003cstrong\u003eSHARDS\u003c\/strong\u003e captures these fleeting moments in a collection of micro-stories that cut straight to the bone of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman counts her child's breaths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man dies and leaves a geocache of wishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child discovers there are no wrong roads home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaloney, Jenny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJenny 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 \u003cem\u003eDissections, All Worlds Wayfarer, NewSapiens, Across the Margins, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShimmer\u003c\/em\u003e. When she's not writing fiction, essays, or poetry, she's creating theater as a writer and performer in Colorado Springs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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 \u003cem\u003eTitus Andronicus \u003c\/em\u003eand a gender-swapped adaptation of Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/em\u003e. Over the past six years she has been involved, in some capacity, in over 20 productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jenny Maloney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057783599378,"sku":"9798232566449","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42a62d76-4c4e-4e3e-bd55-ec2b3a0b05fe.jpg?v=1772007220","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shards-tiny-stories-with-sharp-edges-9798232566449","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}