Hope Floats
Stories of Loss and Living On
A collection of four short stories and two powerful essays exploring the intersection of grief and grace. For those living with grief, these pages reveal that inside its clenched fist are three coins inscribed with Love, Hope, and Remember.
The Short Stories
The New Year’s Box
A couple unhinged by loss struggles through the season of resolutions and forced optimism.
The Happy Place
A mother seeks solace at the shore while contemplating her next steps following her only child’s funeral.
Pockets of Hope
Told from a 24-year-old male perspective, a journey of familiar stops shared with a first love.
Snowflakes & Stones
A bonus story dealing with a mother’s guilt and her journey to move forward in time.
The Essays
- On Mother Loss and Being a Motherless Mother: An examination of losing a mother at age four and a grandmother at nineteen, and how it shaped a personal approach to parenting.
- Grief, Guns and Grace: A reflection on the loss of three friends to gun deaths and how grace calls for a transformation of the heart and society.
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