Books

Secret Anniversaries

4.44* (Good Reads)

FOR READERS WHO ENJOY: compact, profound storytelling with the type of voice that lingers long after you’ve turned the page. This micro-chapbook collects four short stories that orbit personal milestones and private reckonings, using concise, sharp prose to excavate memory, loss, and connection. If you treasure stories that feel distilled yet emotionally expansive this little volume is a perfect fit.

Download this digital micro-chapbook for free through Ghost City Press and dig into You Couldn’t Mistake it for an Oil Puddle, where a building and a sidewalk conspire to survive hostile humans. Or, take a look at What’s Missing in You, opening:

“It’s like, all the people that came and went planted seeds in my soft brain and now I tend an orchard of living ghosts.”

– What’s Missing in You, Secret Anniversaries

Find it HERE on The Ghost City Press website.

Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire

5* (Good Reads)

FOR READERS WHO ENJOY: a full-length poetry collection that calls out to readers who seek language that’s fierce, metaphor-rich, and unafraid to dwell in contradiction. Together with co-author Justin Karcher, Brindise invites you into a landscape of charred memories and tender longing, where the heat of experience ignites both pain and possibility. If you’re drawn to poetry that wrestles with identity and redemption, work that feels like standing with one foot in the smoke and the other in light, this book offers that raw, cathartic terrain.

“It’s a bombed out church where the only people praying look like mounds of oil-slicked snow, where they smell like rotten tacos on a boozy Saturday night, a sacred place where prayer sounds like a first-generation iPod screaming back to life and all we’re trying to do is push through the constant smoke, a chain gang of dirty souls in Purgatory still striving to do better.”

– EMP books

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ROTTEN KID

5* (Good Reads)

FOR READERS WHO ENJOY: literary vulnerability and raw emotional honesty. ROTTEN KID is a poetic journey into the cracked, beautiful places of self-discovery and resilience. This hybrid chapbook weaves spare, spoken-word-inflected verse followed by stories that confront what it means to mend what’s broken within ourselves and in our memory of youth. If you appreciate work that feels like an intimate conversation with your own scars, and you want poetry that’s as unguarded as it is lyrical, ROTTEN KID will speak directly to your experience

As stated in The Public:

“A chapbook dedicated to mending broken things, while honoring all the cracks and bruises.”

Find it HERE on The Ghost City Press website.