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The Paper Boy & The Winter War
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: 7kinds Press
Published: Dec 10 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winter hangs heavy over these pages-where silence wounds, memory endures, and small wars are fought in kitchens, backyards, and broken hearts.
In West Lake, snow forts become battlements and a paper route turns into a theater of war.
Set in the feral 1980s and the fragile present, these stories give voice to half-wild kids, caregivers at the edge of exhaustion, grandmothers faithful to soap operas, and fathers sealed inside survival globes.
With sentences that land fast and leave a bruise, The Paper Boy & The Winter War maps the small wars we inherit and ignite-fought between love and duty, want and survival, memory and mercy. Sharpened and newly arranged, these stories form a ledger of ordinary lives tested by extraordinary circumstance-sentient, unflinching, and deeply human.
For readers who have carried secrets up snowy hills-or tried to build a better self from bent parts-these pages reckon with what a body can endure, what a mind can't forget, and the stubborn hope that sends us back into the cold to try again.
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