We Can't Stay Here Forever, by John Abbott

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

What happens when folk tale inspired language collides with flash fiction? How can a moment be both mundane and life changing? Why is childhood a place we want to escape from and return to?

In this collection, the author explores the possible answers to these questions, providing readers with comfort…and keeping them on edge. “Shorelines” take the reader through a character’s past, present, and future in one compact paragraph. “The Officer’s Wife” is an exercise in brevity – one where the author uses only one syllable words. Each brief story offers its own world of confusion, pain, and joy – or at least the possibility thereof.

John Abbott is a writer, musician, and English instructor who lives with his wife, daughter, and two Siberian Huskies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the author of a novel, a short story collection, and a poetry chapbook.