Tell Me It's Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

By Rita Kay

Tell Me It's Fiction

Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

Each piece is illustrated with an image that captures not only the scene but the aftershock.

This book will have you whisper, "Please let it be fiction," as story after story threads straight into your heart.

Secrets of survival, memories reshaped, lyrical, fierce, gentle, and magically interconnected.

Literary fiction with a pulse, perfect for readers of:

Carmen Maria Machado, Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Ottessa Moshfegh

Stories include elements of:

Psychological fiction, magical realism, literary sci-fi, healing stories, trauma fiction, and emotionally honest storytelling

Inside this book:

A grieving woman speaks to a lost love who may never have been human

A puppeteer haunted by panic and memory

Survivors who never meet but hold one another up

A myth reclaimed by a woman walking the labyrinth without armor

16 unforgettable stories plus bonus poetic entries

Titles include:

Ashes and Code, The Cloud I Became, Bleedthrough, Spins and Silence, The Girl Who Saved Herself, and more

Themes woven through the stories:
C-PTSD, sexual trauma, incest, emotional abuse, grief, dissociation, anxiety, surrealism, time travel, metamorphosis, group therapy

If you've ever needed fiction to say what you couldn't, wanted art to hold your pain, or thought, "No one understands me," this book is for you.

Keep it close, share it if someone needs a lifeline, and remember: you're not alone in the maze. We are all threads in the same tapestry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKBGFPVQ
• ISBN13: 9798294273835
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"