Cotton Candy from the Sky & Other Stories

Prose, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Cotton Candy from the Sky is a collection of flash fiction /short stories about humans’ relationship with nature. It explores the complexity of human behavior, their wrecked homes, and the undercurrents in their relationships with other humans. It depicts how humans seek solace in their natural surroundings. Sometimes, it dives into the wishful and fantastical aspects of humans who yearn to escape their turbulent situations by seeing magic in mundanity. The stories involve children from broken homes who long to escape into their fantasies, imagining pink clouds as cotton candy or dancing with peacocks using Artificial Intelligence. There are children bitten by the bug of loneliness and find comfort in the quiet companionship of birds either by swimming alongside them or watching them in the marsh surrounded by a certain soothing calmness. The stories in Cotton Candy from the Sky alternate between real and surreal worlds- underwater wo