Dirty Socks and Pine Needles: An SRP eBook Single

By Tyler Gillespie

We do not choose our family. We love them or want to love them. We embrace them or run from them. We leave them or become them. Through it all, we are linked by the commonality of a shared blood, and in Dirty Socks and Pine Needles, a sweet and funny eBook single from Sibling Rivalry Press, Tyler Gillespie explores that link by way of the intricate relationships between parent and child, grandmother and grandson, grandfather and grandson, nephew and uncle, and older and younger brother. The resulting vignettes paint a portrait of a family and the tender-hearted boy at its center, whose first images of himself come from the reflections of those around him. Featuring Cover Photograph by Disha Hisham.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press
• Release date: May 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781937420222

Tyler Gillespie

Tyler Gillespie graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in English Literature and a B.S.B.A. in General Business Administration. He was a Junior Editor at Ampersand Books, an independent publishing house. Along with copy-editing and acquisitions duties, he was responsible for marketing, using traditional methods along with various social media platforms. He has been published in places such as Creative Loafing, Yahoo!, The Ampersand Review, Thought Catalog, Windy City Times, and Writer’s Digest, among others. Tyler lives in Chicago.

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DIRTY SOCKS AND PINE NEEDLES

Tyler Gillespie

A Sibling Rivalry Press eBook Single

Copyright © 2012 by Tyler Gillespie

Cover Design by Sibling Rivalry Press

Cover Photograph by Disha Hisham

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for my mother

Contents

family recipes

eating out of vending machines

my father

grandpa’s oranges

killing granny lulu

cursive with uncle thom

gramel

spelling words people don’t know

scar

how i became a man

my mother

hiding from the sun

family recipes

Collard greens;

Sweet