The Peach and Other Miracles

By Mike Orton

Some people grow up chasing miracles. Some grow up running from them.

In the sun-bleached California of the 1970s, a young man learns to leap when in doubt, to love people who can't love him back, and to find wonder in places everyone else has forgotten: a peach bruised just right, a chimp who out-grieves her keepers, a father's last unspoken lesson, a shark that teaches him how to live. Fifteen thought provoking poems and Twenty-One stories of naked river runs, half-inch escapes, and the stubborn, ridiculous ways children refuse to stay small-even when the world keeps trying to make them disappear.

Funny. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable.

From the author of the novella When in Doubt, Jump comes a debut collection that will remind you why you first fell in love with stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GFWNC4X5
• ISBN13: 9798243167789
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"