Award-Winning chapbook of 4 stories. Released 2/9/17!
Award-Winning chapbook of 4 stories about unusual evolving relationship of son and nuclear physicist father.
"Satisfying and emotionally evocative. This collection of four stories begins with a bang but morphs quietly, beautifully into a contemplation of one father/son relationship. Demonstrates a beautiful handle on the progression of a single character through time and shifting points of view, takes risks, and raises poignant questions of family and memory, the forces that shape us." -Kate Barret, Editor, CutBank Books
Excerpt
From first of four stories, "Inches":
Somehow, years after Robbie died, maybe you saw such a yellow cloud, perhaps in some A-Bomb documentary, the blast that levels a row of test houses while incinerating them, then the blowback that takes up the ashes and deposits them where they were blown from in the first place, weird, like the way memory works, total destruction, loss of what was, then the sudden memory of total destruction and perhaps what was, like breathing out, in. . . .
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Not only do the seas roll on but two romances,a death at sea, uncovered past lives, history uncovered in Brazil, caves in Australia, poetry in Senegal, the Lux Mundi
Dreamin’ Dreams is more than a collection of stories; it is a celebration of Irish life, adventure, and the unforgettable characters who make growing up in Ireland a journey worth remembering.
