Your Smallest Bones: Stories

Twelve stories- seven previously published and two Pushcart Prize nominations- highlight this collection of short fiction. Empathy is examined as we help push a grand piano onto a frozen lake or read century old lost braille love letters. They play the lighthearted adventure of language while taming the overwhelming significance of tiny things.The following stories have previously appeared and Weightless - Pantheon Magazine, (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize) April 2014 ISBN 1494415577How Josh Met Emily - Full of Crow Quarterly, February 2014, ISSN 2157-3530Hands Pressing Play - Whisperings Magazine, Summer 2014, ISBN 1494415577It Sings us Both to Sleep - (Part 2 of Weak Nights) Sparkle and Blink 40 (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize) ISBN 978-1-300-10313-4Where Pickled Jalapeños Grow - Coe Review, Volume 44, Issue 2What You’re Waiting For - Instant City 8, ISSN 1937-0784The Burden of Legitimacy - East Coast Literary Review, Fall Edition, 2014 ISBN 1500852775And Petrichor Machine #5 ISSN 2160-9403These stories are minimalistic in nature, they are what you grabbed when you ran from the fire, from the divorce, what you needed, not what you wanted. Written sparse and strong they are the always only necessities.