A chapbook-sized collection of flash fiction stories about our search to find connection and love, and how we often get in our own way. Not yet published.
Table of Contents
Hidden Places
A Night Like This
A Garden
Unrequited/Release/Struck
Opposite Actions for Love
Sky <3 Water
Say Yes
Electric Lines
Chips in the Corner
Treasure Below
Garlic Smells Like Garlic
Springtime in Vernal
Eating Violets
Lovers Card
“Opposite Actions for Love is an immersive journey through the many different shapes that love can take. Each piece, although spanning different narrators and points of view, is clearly born from the same world—one that is sensual, intentional, curious, deep, vivid, sometimes humorous, and spacious. Jaime’s writing pulls the reader into an emotional terrain of her own making, in a way that is alluring and expansive. The voice and worldview, and the careful way the prose pulls me from character to character and scene to scene, are strong enough and clear enough to hold my trust.
In these stories, something might happen or it might not. Yet somehow, Jaime holds readers in this in-between place of possibilities and shows us how attractive and lush it is. Reading this collection, I feel willing to hang out in the muddy middle, even knowing that sometimes love hurts and sometimes love loves.”
–Katey Schultz, author of Still Come Home (novel) and Flashes of War (stories)