Posts tagged vulnerability
Poor Heartless Bastard, You
Poor Heartless Bastard, You

Excerpt: “It could be his heart, returning, only to shank him in the back and leave him bleeding on the sidewalk, if he was still capable of blood.”

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C.P. SHAFERmodern alienation, dark humor, disconnection, existential fiction, office satire, pulse, lost heart, relationships, introspection, urban life, wit, symbolic thread, C. P. Shafer, masculinity, vulnerability, searching for meaning, poetic prose, longing, contemporary narrative, modern loneliness, identity
Bag of Hammers
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.”

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C.P. SHAFERcoming-of-age, father-son stories, rites of passage, guilt, desert landscape, childhood trauma, dark humor, family trials, poetic narrative, masculinity, innocence lost, sacrifice, memoir, Ashé Journal, emotional burden, C. P. Shafer, vivid detail, identity, childhood memories, forgiveness, vulnerability