The Price of Cookies

<h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Two brothers face their mother's impending death.</span></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A convenience store clerk balances compassion with duty.</span></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A grieving soldier receives a package of cookies meant for someone else.</span></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this series of connected flash fiction pieces people navigate the trials of life with tears arguments and above all love and compassion. Lives interwoven and cookies that arrive too late.</span></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This bravura collection of linked stories provides a profound lesson in empathy of pouring yourself into someone else's life someone else's pain to see it from the inside looking out. - Will Ferguson Giller Prize-winning author of 419</span></h3><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About Finnian Burnett</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Finnian Burnett is a professor writer and lifelong learner. They hold a doctorate in English pedagogy from Murray State University and teach college English creative writing and early British Literature. They've run the Golden Crown Literary Society's Writing Academy since 2015 and served as the Director of Education for several years. Under their former name they published several novels with Sapphire Books Publishing including two rainbow award winners. Their novella-in-flash </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Clothes Make the Man</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was released through Ad Hoc Fiction. They are a US transplant to Canada and after years as a permanent resident they finally had their citizenship ceremony. They are now an official Canadian! (And yes they cried during their ceremony.) They live in beautiful British Columbia with their wife.</span></p><p><br></p>