Finding Sound
Finding Sound is a coming-of-age novel set in a small town, where three fifth graders from fractured families are brought together by chance and held together by something deeper. Marcus, a quiet piano prodigy burdened by expectation, forms an unlikely bond with Shell, the resilient daughter of a mother in recovery, and Squeeze, a neglected boy masking his loneliness with bravado. As their lives intertwine, the novel explores friendship, instability, and the fragile moments that shape who we become. Heartfelt and introspective, Finding Sound traces the quiet ways we learn to endure, connect, and find meaning in the noise of growing up.
~published by Moonshine Cove Publishing
~ available in e-book/audiobook
We Were Only Boys
We Were Only Boys refuses to remember adolescence through rose-colored glasses, threating memory as a tactile, physical place filled with unfinished business. Through small, emotionally charged moments–museum field trips, motel rooms, church fellowship halls, and fleeting encounters with intimacy–the chapbook traces boyhood into adulthood, asking how loss first takes shape in the body, mind, and spirit, and how those early lessons shape what we love, want, and fear. Quiet, intimate, and unsentimental, the collection explores what remains when innocence is gone–and what it means to keep loving from a distance once closeness begins to hurt.
~ published by Bottlecap Press
Kyle Yandle 