Breathe In, Breathe Out: and other stories

By Gavin Boyter

"You can't know what sort of parent you'll be until it happens. That's what Marie told Mona and Adam when she recovered from the shock of the revelation. Parenthood is as much of an unknown as the afterlife, she continued. She'd given this talk many, many times in her professional life, but probably not with her face turned to the wall." (BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT)

44 more explorations from the pen of Gavin Boyter, these tales are set in locations and times as far-flung as a Romanian particle accelerator, an active Vanuatu volcano, and a London start-up offering interdimensional escapes.

Meet a monkey matchmaker, a merciful Roman Legionnaire, and a lonely Italian monk in love with a girl on a bicycle. In other tales in this anthology...

-an ageing hiker delivers a mysterious Victorian love letter to a spectre in the snowy Scottish Highlands...
-an enterprising teenager makes an unexpected friend and becomes a schoolyard entrepreneur through photography... -a grieving father decides to erase the memory of his child, and finds he's losing himself instead...
and Christmas's biggest fan meets her nemesis in the basement-dwelling enemy of Yuletide.

"Gavin Boyter combines rawness with heartfelt emotion, carrying the reader through relatable journeys. He also infuses mystery and horror into his writing without it feeling trite." Kristen Henderson, Editor, Bright Flash Literary Review

"Gavin Boyter's fiction brings the reader into another place and time. It is a rare writer who can make a situation far away seem real and relatable." Lisa C. Taylor, WORDPEACE fiction editor.

"Boyter's work... is sensitive, ironic, and playful while maintaining a deeply serious edge that hits a fine-tuned target." Nina Rubenstein Alonso, Editor, Constellation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F42RD57P
• ISBN13: 9798315967309
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"