This debut novel published by Spartan Blue Tails LLC is a joint effort with Edward Campbell. Look for my stories, First Drafts, Nora, Queen of the Cherry Trees (**note name in table of contents should be Joanna Friedman for this story), Kissing My Villain, and The Diaphanous Ombre Glow.
Blurb from the back:
This collection of twenty stories and poems arranged around a central character, Joseph Cooper, a man who lifts others’ pain, explores the possibility that there are multiple versions of our selves.
Award winning authors, Abhishek Sengupta, winner of the 2023 Bristol Short Story Prize, kerry rawlinson, winner of international and literary flash fiction contests, Ben Wakefield finalist in the Globe Soup Open Short Story 2023 competition, crime fiction author Peter L. Abram, Rob Santana, novelist and scriptwriter, whose films have been the official selection at numerous film festivals, C.M O’Slatara author of Lennamore: A Soul for a Crown, and many other published literary, fantasy, and action writers bring stories where characters transform, are plunged into darkness and pain, and find trust in healing.
The stories are connected by AE Hausman’s words, ultimately unearth, What have you in your heart?
Joanna Friedman 