Prose, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. This collection of five flash fiction pieces is an exercise in self-discovery through grief. Each piece centers around the ideas of loss, death, rebirth, and self-knowledge, though in many different ways. In one, a boy, abandoned by humanity and by his own father, clings to hope in the face of overwhelming despair and isolation. In another, a woman’s inner critic finds she isn’t as critical as she assumed. We find closure in ghosts and silence in stone and that not all eruptions are loud, but all are final. Oftentimes ends are just beginnings in sad outfits, so please use these pages to mourn and release in whatever way feels right.