New Collection of Short Stories, Poetry, Thoughts On Life is Released

P.A. Cathey's new book, "Shorties: Poetry, Short Stories, and My Unapologetic Thoughts" (published by Lulu), is a collection of short stories, poetry and musings that offer the author's thoughts on love and everyday life.

With the theme of exploring relationships to self, pets and others, Cathey's collection presents expressions of everyday life. The short stories illustrate trials of diverse characters, featuring a war veteran persistently visited by the grim reaper, an alternate version of history and the story of a head that has been separated from its body. Scattered between these stories are random reflections and poetry. Poetry topics include the perfect hug, manhood, simple pleasures and death.

"Relationships are an integral part of everyone's life," Cathey says. "My stories may or may not be based on my personal experiences yet somewhere out there, there is someone who can relate to them."

"Shorties"
By P. A. Cathey
Softcover | 5.83 x 8.26 in | 134 pages | ISBN 9781483464923
E-Book | 134 pages | ISBN 9781483464930
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
P. A. Cathey took her first breath in North Carolina, her first steps in Georgia. She acquired a taste for food in California, developed her moral compass in Washington and lost her virginity in Virginia. Cathey learned about the compassion of strangers in Louisiana, what "Cold as a Witches T" meant in Illinois, and gained her freedom as a woman and independence as a human in Tennessee. She hopes to end her life's journey in the Smokey Mountains of East Tennessee. She has also published "I Love my Short Shorts" and "The Poetry Place."

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