{"product_id":"liesrj","title":"Lies I Tell My Children, by Ruth Joffre","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAlmost a decade in the making, \u003cem\u003eLies I Tell My Children\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of surreal and fanciful falsehoods dreamed up by a single mom just doing her best. Originally inspired by the things parents say to get kids to do their homework or clean their rooms, this series of flash fictions expanded into an intimate portrait of one woman’s mind: her fears, her desires, and the secrets she keeps from her children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eBuilt around a series of hypotheticals (e.g. “if they don’t stop growing up so fast…”), the stories in this chapbook often veer into fantasy and fabulism, depicting a world where nightmares come to life, ghosts haunt the backyard, and slime molds creep out of the air conditioner. Everything in this chapbook is a lie, and yet every word of it is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eRuth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer and the author of the story collection \u003cem\u003eNight Beast\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 100 publications, including \u003cem\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSmokeLong Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFractured Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ehex literary\u003c\/em\u003e, and the anthologies \u003cem\u003eBest Microfiction\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBest Small Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e. She does not have children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ruth Joffre","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51493432721723,"sku":"LIESRJ","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51493432754491,"sku":"LIESRJe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Lies_cover.png?v=1784577162","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/liesrj","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}