{"product_id":"breacs","title":"breakup notes from a love story i made up in my head, by Catherine Shonack","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ebreakup notes from a love story i made up in my head\u003c\/em\u003e is for the hopeless romantics who dream in the daylight and trip over themselves in the process. It’s inspired by the people who come into our lives for a short amount of time, a few hours or a few days at most, and change them in ways they’ll never know. It traces how the fantasy of someone lingers longer than they did, how it replaces what we know about someone until that’s all that’s left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHow does a dreamer know when it’s time to come back to earth? How long does it take to get a over a what-if? Perhaps, the narrator questions, it’s in the falling that the healing happens, and in the time it takes a hopeless romantic to learn to fly again. When the quality of connection is so strong it makes a day feel like years, the length of a relationship becomes irrelevant. When you’ve lived so long with a fantasy, separating it from the truth can be nearly impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems oscillate between healing and backtracking, moving forward only to get swept away by the fantasy once again, and the non-linear manner in which people endeavor to move on from someone who was not meant for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eCatherine Shonack is a writer from Los Angeles who currently resides in Brooklyn. She obtained her master’s degree in playwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Glasgow. Her poems have been featured on the Kirkstall Poetry Trail and published in \u003cem\u003eInk Sweat \u0026amp; Tears\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAbundance Literary Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Her radio play \u003cem\u003eHow to Drive in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e was performed at ChapelFM as part of their Writing on Air Festival in 2024. She’s currently working on a historical fantasy novel about the golden age of piracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catherine Shonack","offers":[{"title":"Print Chapbook","offer_id":50410355622203,"sku":"BREACS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50410355654971,"sku":"BREACSe","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/breakupfront.png?v=1751570907","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/breacs","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}