Once upon a time there was a monster. This is how they tell you the story starts. This is a lie.

Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. DNA doesn’t define us, gravity doesn’t hold us, a home doesn’t mean we belong. From circus tents to space stations, Damien Angelica Walters creates stories that are both achingly familiar and chillingly surreal. Within her second short story collection, she questions who the real monsters are, rips families apart and stitches them back together, and turns a cell phone into the sharpest of weapons.

Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you turn the last page.

Once upon a time there was a girl …

Featuring the following works:

Tooth, Tongue, and Claw

Deep Within the Marrow, Hidden in My Smile

On the Other Side of the Door, Everything Changes

This is the Way I Die

The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale

The Judas Child

S Is for Soliloquy

The Floating Girls: A Documentary

Take a Walk in the Night, My Love

Falling Under, Through the Dark

The Serial Killer’s Astronaut Daughter

Umbilicus

A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take

Little Girl Blue, Come Cry Your Way Home

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

In the Spaces Where You Once Lived