Things That Happen in the Rain, by Diane Payne

Prose, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

The prose collection begins with the author questioning the guilty verdict of a mother sentenced to a life in prison for a fire that killed her daughter, and how the mother may be innocent. Throughout the collection, the author ponders the loss of family, pets, strangers, rain, her interactions with lovers, guns, feeble apologies, meeting a preacher in a hospital, and attending an Apple conference.

These flash prose pieces are not only wry observations about life, but they reveal the lingering questions about making sense of what we experience. Many readers will connect to these brief but engaging ponderings.  Life is rarely as we expect.  The unexpected awaken and shape us on a daily basis.

Some of Diane’s most recent publications include: Cutleaf Journal, Mukoli, Miracle Monacle, Hairstreak Butterfly, Invisible City, Best of Microfiction 2022, Another Chicago Magazine, Whale Road Review, Fourth River, Tiny Spoon, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, Book of Matches, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill Review, Quarterly West, Table Feast Literary Magazine Lunch Ticket, Miramichi Flash, Spry Split Lip Review, The Offing, Elk, and McNeese Review.  She is also the author of Burning Tulips, Red Hen Press. More can be found here: dianepayne.wordpress.com