Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them (eBook)
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Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them is a libidinous collection of 22 micros and flashes to light your fire and break your heart.
Keith J. Powell (he/him) is co-founder and managing editor of Your Impossible Voice. His writing has appeared in Best Microfiction 2023, Best Microfiction 2024, and elsewhere. Find more at keithjpowell.com.
Keith J. Powell writes with startling originality and authority and his debut story collection is troublingly lovable and winning. I will be lured back to these wonderful fictions again and again. Haunting, strange and addictive, this is the work of a gifted new author with a sharp eye and a tender heart.
—Meg Pokrass, author of The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories
Powell’s collection unleashes potent and limber stories that “float loose up from the depths”, a buoyant and spirited journey through the language of love. Lucid light douses each piece. Only a truly remarkable writer can conjure up playful weavings of the human heart through new avenues of spectral optimism. Masterfully told. Get a copy!
—Meg Tuite, author of Planked By The Abyss
