{"product_id":"brechtian-asher-rush-9798318851308","title":"Brechtian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen Stories. Fifteen Worlds. One Voice That Refuses to Behave.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrechtian\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring, wildly original anthology of flash fiction from Asher Rush - a collection that talks back to you, breaks the fourth wall mid-sentence, and dares you to keep up. Across fifteen stories, Rush leaps from farce to heartbreak, from bloody action to biblical tragedy, from a Cupid who's lost the ability to love to a monster learning what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens in its Action section with X, a self-dubbed \"near miss assassin\" who wakes battered in a hospital bed, trading flirtations with a sharp-tongued nurse before he can feel his broken ribs. A trained killer who has never once completed a job, X is a walking contradiction - and his trademark failures turn out to be acts of quiet rebellion against the world that forged him. From there the section spirals into a villager hanged for the crime of honesty, and a reluctant vampire cursed to become something worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Romance\/Love section trades bullets for something stranger and more tender: a Cupid who cannot fall in love, a wraith haunting a preacher wracked with guilt for condemning the innocent to the witch trials, a beast bargaining for humanity, a woman named Naomi, unseen and brought to her lowest, climbing her own stairway to heaven in a retelling of the book of Joab, and a lonely tombstone named Epitaph who outlives every friend he makes. These are love stories in the widest sense - stories about longing, belonging, faith, and the ache of being misunderstood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes on its most audacious note: a retelling of the biblical prince Avshalom, the beautiful traitor, reimagined with all of Rush's irreverence and heart - a son at war with his father, a rebellion born of love, and a king dying with no regrets and every regret at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRush writes for the curious reader - the one willing to be unsettled, amused, and moved in the span of a few pages. Every story is a different world, a different voice, and a different question about what it means to be human. Some will make you laugh. Some will break something open. All of them will keep you guessing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrechtian\u003c\/em\u003e invites you in, one unpredictable story at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asher Rush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798318851308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palmetto Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Asher Rush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50848700793087,"sku":"9798318851308","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brechtian-asher-rush-9798318851308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}