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Unbraiding: Actor Producer Father: A Story in Three Strands

Unbraiding: Actor Producer Father: A Story in Three Strands

Perez, Laurie

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798255535026
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Actor: wildly successful by all counts. Producer: blockbusters and critical acclaim. Father to a seven year old daughter: desperately unraveled, a work in progress. Can he pull this story together after the divorce? With the help of three Hollywood hairdressers, one long night of practice and a few dozen bobby pins, he might just get it right.

In the short story Unbraiding, a successful actor and producer navigates the vulnerabilities of fatherhood and divorce while trying to master a complex hairstyle for his young daughter. Following the story, his struggle to balance perfectionism with emotional presence is mirrored in the prose poem, Cast Their Whispers to the Void, which advocates for dropping the weight of gossip and external judgment. By casting aside social projections and internal criticisms, the lyrical spell-breaking language opens to a limitless creative neutrality where authentic sense of self is timeless and accessible.

The UNBRAIDING collection celebrates the passion and dedication of filmmaking while showing how authentic connection and self-love flourish when we let go of rigid roles to embrace a more fluid, benevolent identity.

  • No edge. No underlying cause. Neither they nor them. I cannot be charted, loved or abandoned because I'm all of these at once. The guilt and innocence woven through the heat of my existence - in the beam of pure attention now dissolves.
  • Between each thought, a void holds space in which no script has yet been written and everything that I am is possible. There's a reason the planets as we know them turn out round and spherical. We aren't meant to anchor to just one beginning, nor ever to an end. -Laurie Perez
Together, Unbraiding and Cast Their Whispers to the Void pack a remarkable amount of refreshing philosophical substance into a brief space, beautifully illustrating the shift from relying on an unrelenting drive to learning how to trust compassion and find enduring confidence in the fertile void.

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