Love Breaks My Bones and I Laugh

<p>The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of Hans Christian Andersen comforts a young girl. These short stories are haunted by the destructive often cyclically so power of love and fantasy.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Fans of Johnson's work namely her previous collection I'll Tell You a Love Story (Bridge Eight 2020) might notice an anger in these stories that felt more subdued before. There is a pain that still burns-the hand pressed to the stove a flash in the sear that has not subsided. A kind of</p><p>frenetic energy carries the reader through these pieces- Kym Cunninham author of NEW MYTHOLOGIES and DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING</p>