The Paper Boy & The Winter War

<p><em> Winter hangs heavy over these pages-where silence wounds memory endures and small wars are fought in kitchens backyards and broken hearts. </em></p><p>In West Lake snow forts become battlements and a paper route turns into a theater of war.<br>Set in the feral 1980s and the fragile present these stories give voice to half-wild kids caregivers at the edge of exhaustion grandmothers faithful to soap operas and fathers sealed inside survival globes.</p><p>With sentences that land fast and leave a bruise <em>The Paper Boy & The Winter War</em> maps the small wars we inherit and ignite-fought between love and duty want and survival memory and mercy. Sharpened and newly arranged these stories form a ledger of ordinary lives tested by extraordinary circumstance-sentient unflinching and deeply human.</p><p>For readers who have carried secrets up snowy hills-or tried to build a better self from bent parts-these pages reckon with what a body can endure what a mind can't forget and the stubborn hope that sends us back into the cold to try again.</p><p><br> </p>