Paper Cuts -1,000 Paper Cranes

By Larry Handy

Paper Cuts is Pushcart Prize nominated writer Larry Handy’s dark spiritual thriller. Kyle and Kat are in a toxic marriage. Kyle is an origami artist who teaches at a University. Kat is a practicing witch who runs an occult bookstore. After an argument turns violent, Kyle accidently kills Kat. Feeling frantic and guilty, he’s willing to do anything to stay out of prison. Despite not believing in Kat’s witchcraft, he attempts to perform a resurrection spell, which he has to learn in one night. While Kat’s body lies in the bathtub, he combines the forces of dark magic and a thousand paper cranes to defy nature in hopes of saving them both.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TWB Press
• Release date: Jul 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781944045784

Larry Handy

Larry Handy leads the award-winning poetry band Totem Maples. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in such journals as Cog, Proximity, Quiddity, Rivet, Storylandia, Straight Forward Poetry and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. His essay “What to Do When Grandma Has Dementia” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was listed in The Best American series under Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2016. When not writing he is practicing Chinese martial arts or running 26.2-mile marathons. SoCal is his home.

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