a world of love and envy

short stories, flash fiction, and poetry

A country girl, abused by her husband, learns to tread lightly as she finds refuge in the birch trees and the starkly lit eyes of night creatures. A woman’s affair with her husband ends as he lights a Chesterfield and abruptly fires her. A naive black girl journeys with her boyfriend to California, experiences the loss of her baby and then him, then discovers a symbol of revenge in the form of a red juggling ball.

“Kathy Handley is a master of those small life moments that define us.” — Mary Kennedy Eastham, author of The Shadow of a Doge I Can’t Forget

Kathy Handley’s readers enter her debut collection of short stories, flash fiction, and poetry, discovering rich and unique pictures of longing, disappointment, revenge, and redemption. The stories are raw and real; not an imitation of reality but a portrait of it.

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