Spangled Ruin

By Holly Morse

A small town postal worker knows more than the young woman at her counter, including what they share; a Chinese American boy draws on fantasy ponies to outmaneuver menace; and an outsider artist teaches an urban lover the benefits of a fish’s perspective. In these stories – sexy, funny, tragic, cosmic -- Holly Morse unfurls the rainb

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tall Island Press
• Release date: Mar 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9780991327287

Holly Morse

Holly Morse is an artist and writer. With her husband Michael Lipson, PhD, she is writing I Say Hello, an epistolary collaboration that explores love, loss and the nature of time. Morse is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts MFA program. She lives with her family in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.

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