What We Might Become

<p><strong>Winner Short Story Collection <em>Storytrade Book Awards</em> (2025)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Bronze Medal Short Story-Fiction<em> Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)</em> (2025)</strong></p><p></p><p>An adolescent struggles with race and sexuality and her father's return from war; a spiteful social pariah finally reveals her rumored freakish robot anatomy when she attends the senior prom with her geriatric date; an unemployed husband grows enamored with the new immigrant next door as she reveals her tragic past; and a new widower is tormented by the smell of his neighbor's expert baking and feigns that he is part bear. Sara Reish Desmond's characters find themselves at the threshold; on the verge of discovery navigating the space between childhood and adulthood between fidelity and scandal between honesty and deceit. Deft and moving <em>What We Might Become</em> shares the uncertainty about how we ought to live in transitional moments and perhaps more desperately forever.</p>