coming-of-age — Stories | C.P. Shafer – Short Stories & Literary Fiction<br/><br/>

Bag of Hammers

Excerpt: “The way the sun reflected off of the gun’s clean metal made it look like a star wrapped in a blanket. I wondered if I, too, had something inside my black soul as beautiful and dangerous.”

In Search of Life on Alameda VIII

Excerpt: “Every time Alameda discovers a planet, she names it after herself.”