{"product_id":"brechtian-paperback","title":"Brechtian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAsher Rush\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924031045939,"sku":"9798318851308","price":23.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/prr71mBw-59798318851308.webp?v=1793829049","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/brechtian-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}