Thirty Brown Paper Bags

What's inside a brown paper bag?

A genie trapped for forty years.
A peach falling in love with the bag that ripens it.
Ants waging war over a ham sandwich.
A woman who can only get off while wearing one over her head.

Paper Brown Bags began as a challenge: write thirty stories about an ordinary object. These poignant and wacky stories will resonate with anyone who feels like an oddball in a pinball machine. You’ll ricochet across genres, collide with taboo themes, and discover narrative magic along the way.

Read this book if you think you're a ghost. Read it if you've ever felt like a misunderstood metaphor. Read it to explore what we carry, what carries us, and what gets thrown away.

Open the bag. See what spills out.