What It All Means - The Red Collection

by Abigail Eckstine, Grant Pearson

Life and death, love and hate, guilt, regret, honor, and loss. In a collection of eight stories, Grant and Abigail Pearson have written characters in historical fiction and modern day settings to explore the question of What It All Means.
What makes life worth living for? What makes life worth dying for? What does life mean? What are the extremes that balance and guide our lives? Grant and Abigail deal with these questions in their stories and with their characters, pushing the boundaries of storytelling time and again to discover what makes a human tick, what makes a human break, and how does one understand the grays that run this world. Few things are black and white in these stories. Some of them are darker than others, and some of them are more fantastical. But all of them -- Grant and Abi hope -- provoke consideration and reflection. And in the end, you have to decide for yourself 'what does it all mean?'

Neverland. Meet a young woman whose mother died, whose father rejected her, and who is struggling to move on and grow up.

Lifeblood. Understand what it means to lose your family's ancestral honor and what it will cost to avenge your family and viking clan.

The Bathtub. Share in the pain of three siblings whose only way to escape their past is to find the ultimate peace.

These are only a few of the stories you will discover in this incredible collection.

88 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2016

About the author

Abigail Eckstine (She/They) is a 25-year-old queer writer of novels and poetry.