Connor Nicolas: 4 books

Life is not always what we expect. Your vision and what is doesn’t always align. Do you fold into yourself and let your wishing get the best of you? Or do you look around and find that friend? Conversations With Verbs of Prey is Connor Nicolas’ latest short story exploring loneliness and how the need for connection causes one woman to exchange in dialog with an inanimate object.

When we are unable to step outside our world, ourselves, things become very small. Breaks occur. A bubble becomes a confidant. A bubble becomes an instructor. Connor Nicolas’ short story explores parallels between the inanimate and animate and how we are able to find lessons in the unlikeliest of places.

From the time she was young, Ana Cartena’s mother warned her to stay away from wolves. Ana, however, sought the comfort and safety wolves provide. Ana followed her mother’s orders after she had her son, but became tired of the struggles; struggles that turned her hands knotted and gnarled like...

Liza Parker’s maxim was better read than bred until a series of beatings, disappointments and deaths caused her to fold into herself and live the tenet her mother pounded into her that a woman is only five percent of a being without a man. People who have been through stuff forget things that people...