The Japanese Box and Other Stories

<p>From the author of the Kindle Award Winning Novel for Best Horror 2020 -Beautiful</p><p>Frightening and Silent-and Pretty/Ugly- Winner of The Kindle Award for Best Novel</p><p>2022 (Reader's Choice) comes a collection of short stories contemplating horror grief and trauma.</p><p>Simulacrum is a dark comedic tale about college life and love. It is the story of what happens when</p><p>two sociopaths attend art exhibits drink lemon vodka and spar over everything and anything.</p><p>Periods.</p><p>Coloring books.</p><p>Art.</p><p>This is the story of our unnamed narrator...an origin story of a would-be hopes to be serial killer.</p><p><br></p><p>The Japanese Box is a story that blends memoir creative nonfiction and the horror of a coming-of-age</p><p>story and a coming of middle-aged story.</p><p>Imagine growing up with a reflection that is often absent and a Japanese box that is filled with things that</p><p>should never have been there.</p><p>Memories.</p><p>Violence.</p><p><br></p><p>The Japanese Box is a love letter to anxiety trauma grief and longing. It is a story of a child becoming</p><p>an adult and all the ghosts and misfortunes that happen in order to survive.</p><p>The Lithium Moon: Simone is an artist by day and an emotionally abused wife at night. She is a</p><p>successful artist with a long history of schizoid effective disorder with bipolar tendencies.</p><p>When her marriage goes from good to bad she suffers her first miscarriage. The tragedy coincides with a</p><p>wolf moon-Trauma and magic converge seem to converge in Simone's head.</p><p>This story explores sadness illness hallucinations full moons and the creative process.</p><p>What Stage of Grief is not a poem or a song but a dirge.</p><p>Fantasy and facts this poem walks a fine line between nightmares and memories. Grief stories and love</p><p>stories. Dogs and drama. Nightmares and nevermore.</p>