Walking Off Heaven's Shore

Step into a world where the Southern everyday brushes against the surreal, and the smallest choices alter a lifetime. Walking Off Heaven's Shore gathers eleven stories—funny, fierce, unsettling, and tender—that explore what happens when ordinary women meet the unexpected.

A teenage girl wades into a baptismal river seeking salvation, but finds temptation staring back from the shore. A mother wakes up in a pink-washed nightmare of "self-improvement" she never asked for. A volunteer firefighter faces his first real blaze—and the fear that could undo him. A writer trapped during a coastal storm uncovers the dangerous truth about a friend she trusted. 

These stories move from gritty realism to shimmer-at-the-edges magical speculation, always anchored in the humor, heart, and hard choices of real life. Whether confronting desire, addiction, betrayal, identity, or the strange physics of loneliness, each character must decide what they're willing to lose—and what they finally claim as their own.

Told with sharp wit, deep compassion, and a storyteller's eye for the absurd, *Walking Off Heaven's Shore* is a celebration of the messy, marvelous resilience of the human spirit.

Perfect for readers who love contemporary Southern fiction with a twist of folklore, magical realism, and wry humor.