All versions of Zero: Poems and Prose by Erica Franz, are available to purchase on Amazon today!
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What is Zero? It’s a collection of short stories and poems about the growing pains of waking up. They’re meant to be raw, and vulnerable. Human.
Excerpt from “Black Mamba”
We talk for hours—a meaningless exchange—he runs circles around nonsense.
He’d been clean but intentionally started using meth that day.
The addict’s story, the user’s creed.
His flirtations meant nothing, like school-kid things.
Silly and senseless, meant to be dismissed.
I left with only mosquito bites that night.
Now he sits on my sofa, sand everywhere from his shoes. Organizing his bag, or disorganizing it. Asking me if I’d like to have something to drink—offering to share his tiny Vodkas.
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