Breaststroke

This collection of short fiction explores themes of loneliness, loss of love, and self-worth in a strange, often humorous fashion. The characters face challenges that present themselves in ways that exist only within imagined worlds: a woman’s heart leaves her body after a bad breakup, a captive entertainer is let out of her glass cage, a group of children become violent after they discover their new friend can perform shape-shifting. Together, the stories try to capture what it means to move through a transformative period in one’s life.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Katelyn Catinell