My short nonfiction story, “Stripes Are Always in Style,” appears in Sweet Bitter Love. It’s edited by author Cathrine Swift. Available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook.
There’s also a super sweet companion journal you can purchase too!
The Sweet Bitter Love anthology is a collection of epistolary stories about love of all kinds. My story is about my friendship with my pet chicken Harriet from the day we met until the day we said goodbye.
There’s a big content warning for animal death, because she dies at the end, but the story is much sweeter than it is sad. It’s all about my love for Harriet and the good times we had together.
All our proceeds from Sweet Bitter Love will be donated to Women Building Futures, a Canadian nonprofit organization supporting women.
The blurb:
They say love is tender. They say love is true. But what we know is that love can be sweet, and sometimes bitter too.
Sweet Bitter Love is a heartfelt, heartwarming, and heartbreaking anthology composed by twenty authors from across the globe. From journal entries to stories and letters, Sweet Bitter Love explores the intricacies and complexities of connections, relationships, and, most of all, love, from all angles.
Sometimes all you need is a cheeky cat, a trip abroad, an angry letter, a soothing presence, a personal understanding, a fit of passion, or a chance to reconnect the fragments of your broken heart. And sometimes all you need to do to find it is to turn the page.
If you enjoy heart-wrenching stories, raw passion, and self-love, then Sweet Bitter Love is for you.
Twenty authors from around the globe have banded together to create this one-of-a-kind anthology composed of poetry, love letters, journal entries and more. Spanning from Maine, Ancient Greece, London, and beyond…
Covering the most important moments of love– the sweet, the bitter, and the in-between. Rediscover the magic of love with both fictional and real life accounts, and hopefully fall a little deeper in love with yourself.
There’s also a companion journal! It’s by Cathrine Swift, the mastermind behind the anthology, and she’s put together this amazing companion piece where you can write your own love letters. Check it out here!
A companion to the international selling Anthology ‘Sweet Bitter Love’. Now it’s your turn to put ink to paper. With space for free flow journalling and guided prompts that will get you thinking about the most important people, pets and experiences in your life. This journal is sure to get you thinking about love.
All the cover design and graphics in this post were made by the talented Cathrine Swift.