When a loved one dies, the family will often turn to the photograph albums as an act of solace, to keep their loved one with them just a little while longer. Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance arose from that experience. The collection opens with three free verse expressions of raw grief, followed by a series of photographs from the author's family album, each paired with a poem written in tanka. Taken together, they tell the story of a loving family lost.

Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance

Gauffreau, Elizabeth

Parenting & Relationships

Paul Stream Press, LLC

The ten stories in this anthology shine each at its own speed of light--dimmer, hidden deep in the darkness, or brighter, burning faster. Through tales of secrets, loss, and identity, empathy illuminates the path, lengthening the shadows of the human emotions laid bare. When a young boy collects secrets like another boy would collect rocks or stamps, darkness envelops the man he becomes. When a young mother accepts a ride from a stranger, the truth about her situation is revealed to her. A penumbra outlines the dark core of one mother's loss as another mother's gain. Through stories of divorce, memory loss, struggles with mental health, and estrangement, loss reveals what we are capable of doing to cope, to recover, to heal, and what we can become as a result.

Distant Flickers: Stories of Identity & Loss

Literature & Fiction

Contributors, Multiple

LaHines, Carol

Literary

Telling Sonny

Forty-six-year-old FABY GAUTHIER keeps an abandoned family photograph album in her bottom bureau drawer. Also abandoned is a composition book of vaudeville show reviews, which she wrote when she was nineteen and Slim White, America's self-proclaimed Favorite Hoofer (given name, LOUIS KITTELL), decided to take her along when he played the Small Time before thinking better of it four months later and sending her back home to Vermont on the train. Two weeks before the son she had with Louis is to be married, Faby learns that Louis has been killed in a single-car accident, an apparent suicide. Her first thought is that here is one more broken promise: Louis accepted SONNY's invitation to the wedding readily, even enthusiastically, giving every assurance that he would be there, and now he wouldn't be coming. An even greater indignity than the broken promise is that Louis's family did not bother to notify Faby of his death until a week after the funeral took place. She doesn't know how she can bring herself to tell Sonny he mattered so little in his father's life he wasn't even asked to his funeral...

Telling Sonny: A novel

Adelaide Books

Best of Choeofpleirn Press: Winter 2022

Press, Choeofpleirn

Cappello, Joe

Schulte, Alix Shepard

Woodward, Henry Lansing

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

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