"I think I am always writing about the innate loneliness of the human experience and the fragility of connection and stability. The self is a house, and sometimes it sits like a lighthouse at sea, unreachable; sometimes it is made of cardboard. And always, there are wolves trying to blow down the walls. All we think we know of the world and of ourselves is nothing but a safety net we have woven out of illusions and we pretend it can keep us safe." -- VANESSA SANTOS, author of Make A Home of Me Pre-orders available now! Links in bio! #shortfiction #newbooks #weirdfiction