Do What the Boss Says

<p><em>Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood</em> is a collection of short-short stories exploring the adult-child dynamic. A daughter nervously visits her father who has now become a stranger; a young Irish girl substitutes a cardboard cut-out for her presence within her own family; a naive schoolboy is tricked by a more streetwise passer-by; a child tries to impress her village by breaking the world record for stepping in and out of a doorway. This chapbook offers you a kaleidoscopic view of the pressures conflicts and joys of childhood and family life: from surreal fables to memoir to idiosyncratic realism to ghost stories about weird encounters. </p>