Thirty Brown Paper Bags

What’s inside a brown paper bag? More than you’d expect.

Can a single writing prompt stretch an ordinary object into thirty stories written by one author?

These poignant and wacky stories will resonate with anyone who feels like a ball in a pinball machine. You’ll ricochet across genres, collide with taboo themes, and discover narrative magic along the way. Inside, there’s a genie trapped for decades, a peach waiting to ripen, ants fighting over a ham sandwich, and people grappling with love, hunger, shame, desire, memory, and survival.

This collection is an invitation to a séance, and the brown paper bag is the Ouija board. Read this book if you think you’re a ghost. Read it if you’ve ever felt like a misunderstood metaphor. Read it to explore what we carry, what carries us, and what gets thrown away. Be prepared for absurdist comedy, erotic farce, folk horror, political satire, grief‑soaked realism, speculative science fiction—and whatever else a brown paper bag can hold.

Open the bag. See what’s inside.
Will it terrify you? It should—and make you smile.