The Secret and the Sacred - Softcover

Parker, Erin K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996352643 ISBN 13: 9780996352642

Publisher: Unknown Press, 2015

Synopsis

Erin K Parker’s The Secret and the Sacred is a collection of short stories that will linger long after you’ve closed the book.  What happens when your new friend confesses that he has a terminal illness?  When the people in the next apartment make you feel like you’re never alone?  When you discover you have hidden powers to right the wrongs?  When you receive a message from the dead?  When you find healing and magic in the most intensive customer service job in the world?  When you hit the bottom and there is no other choice but to figure out how to rebuild everything?  Sometimes what keeps us going are our secrets.  And sometimes it’s the sacred things that save us once we learn how to see them.

About this title

About the Author:

Erin won her first Creative Writing contest when she was 11, and has been writing ever since. Her work has been published by Uno Kudo, Red Fez, Drunk Monkeys, Cadence Collective, Lost in Thought, Timid Pirate Publishing, The Altar Collective, Santa Fe Lit Review, Silver Birch Press and Lucid Moose Lit's anthology Like a Girl: Perspectives on Female Identity. Erin was nominated for Best of the Net 2014. She is an editor for Uno Kudo and JMWW. The Secret and the Sacred is her first book. Visit her online at erinkparker.com

Review:

A fierce and delicate first book, The Secret and the Sacred contains stories that pierce your heart, engage your mind, slay your being. Line by line, this is a haunting postcard to former lovers, any partner, every naysayer. A terrific read. -Robert Vaughan, author of Addicts & Basements The Secret and the Sacred is hilarious, disturbing, heartbreaking and unrelentingly alive. These stories confront the horror and the irony of what it is to be alive in our era with a sense of compassion and empathy that is all,too rare in most contemporary writing. -Seth Fischer, The Rumpus Erin K. Parker's collection, The Secret and the Sacred, immerses us in 'daily abrasion mixed with fireworks' of dating hell, whacked neighbors, lost and found love, ghosts penetrating new terrain through fear and discovery of power that rocks us into the strange species that we are. Read it. -Meg Tuite, author of Bound By Blue

About this edition

• Publisher: Unknown Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996352643
• ISBN 13: 9780996352642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134
• Editor: Smith Bud