DADDY

DADDY is a 183 pages of dark short stories and a novella all sharing the collective theme of a dark father figure absent or present, sometimes multiple characters. The stories and novella present characters struggling against and giving into their daddy issues. It was an extremely therapeutic book for a girl like me, with daddy issues she wears on her sleeves and kneesocks for the world to see, to write and bask in the extremes of where this pain can take you. The stories are set against the backdrop of a Christian university, strip clubs, roller skating rinks, suburban neighborhoods, Pensacon, Florida’s electric chair, a small town cable access station late night, a Parisian fashion show after party, a candy coated dream/nightmare, a kitty themed coffee shop, the rural woods of Northwest Florida, an elementary school bathroom stall and a child’s ornate playhouse among other locales. The book is published by Anxiety Press and will be available in October.