{"product_id":"whatar","title":"What the Living Has Done, by Ashton Russell","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 24 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\u003eWhat the Living Has Done\u003c\/em\u003e is a flash fiction chapbook that stitches together raw, intimate portraits of lives shaped by loss, longing, and the deep ache of absence. Set against the backdrop of the American South- with its humid summers, hushed secrets, and slow-burning regrets - these brief yet powerful stories explore the quiet devastation of childhoods marked by absent mothers and fathers, the haunting echo of mistakes made, and the heartbreak that lingers in the spaces where love should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eEach piece stands alone, yet together they form a mosaic of emotional truth: the woman watching someone cry in their car in the grocery store parking lot, the little girl waiting for something to change in her life on her front porch, the man who lost his daughter from violence but carves art out of wood. These are stories of people trying to understand what went wrong, who they might have been, and whether healing is possible when the past refuses to stay buried. Sparse, lyrical, and deeply human, \u003cem\u003eWhat the Living Has Done\u003c\/em\u003e offers a poignant reflection on how we carry the weight of our stories - and how, sometimes, they carry us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAshton Russell holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePithead Chapel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Compressed Creative Arts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSundog Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/em\u003e among others. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ashton Russell","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50407687192891,"sku":"WHATAR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50407687225659,"sku":"WHATARe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/livingfront_707d212c-c91f-47cd-a070-12d2fbd9aac6.png?v=1751474946","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/whatar","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}