David W. Berner
David W. Berner is an acclaimed author of fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, short stories, and poetry. His writing space is inside an 8x10 shed on the propertyof his Midwest home, a shed modeled after Dylan Thomas' famous boathouse shed in Laugharne, Wales. You can read about it at The...
The Islander
Winner: Literary Fiction, National Association of Independent Writers and EditorsSeamus Damp is an aging American-born writer who retreats to a remote island off the coast of Ireland to escape to a monastic life. But his troubled past is always near, and his estranged relationship with his son is fraught with heartbreak. When a young woman who carries her own heartache-filled past comes to the island on a solitary spiritual and hiking adventure, she and Seamus discover an unusual bond and together attempt to find a way to heal their hearts and erase their collective sorrows.During a harrowing ...
American Moon
Winner of the Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas.Austen, broken by a turbulent past, sets out on a cross-country journey to California, seeking the faint promise of a new beginning. But early on, he encounters a troubling scene— a baby left alone in a rundown roadside motel in a small Missouri town. The child’ s mother, Taylor, is on her own desperate journey, battling addiction and the crushing weight of poverty in a town gripped by the opioid crisis. In a fragile attempt at redemption, Austen and Taylor forge an unlikely companionship. Together, they navigate the ruins of thei...