Jumping on the Drips: Connected Stories

by Eda Kara

MUST READ, Reedsy Discovery Snapshots of human experience with a hint of uncanny. Each story will linger in your mind well after you have read them. – Lauren Smith, Author An intriguing compendium of compelling, thought-provoking, and somewhat surreal short stories – modern in both writing style and outlook. – Deborah Murrell, Author and Editor Dive into the stories of souls at play. Meet the borderless characters who enter each other's destinies, grow together and flow apart. Jump with them from one drip to another; suck up the bits of color from every page and leave some on the drips behind. Pete’s letters are never read by Cate but by a stranger. Zoe’s voice diminishes to a whisper and then to a silence to find what she is looking for. Cora is carried away by the conversation between two strangers she overheard on a bus before facing her reality. Agnes never finds out how a tattoo of a tree appeared on her shoulder. She accepts and embraces the tree as it responds to her emotions; Agnes is not alone anymore. John’s longing for his past hits a glitch. Dennis plays a mind game with his wife in a civilized way. Egan never finds the door to take him where he wants to go. Mateo questions if he knows Bella more after exchanging 46,127 words over text messages than reading her profile of 250 words. The author in the book creates a world for Pete, Agnes, Cate and others with the spur of inspiration from a painting on a stone. After he completes the last chapter, he searches for the picture of the painting he took. He realizes that it is not the same as he remembered. Maya plays her game until she gets hungry and Anthony confuses which of several caves to put the tree house back into when the rest of the world tries to figure out what is going on. Ash lets his soul go free from his body. Spiro goes to the cemetery to stay alive.

97 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 29, 2021

About the author

Eda Kara (aka Eda Uzuncakara)’s life has unfolded on the bridges of existence—between logic and creativity, corporate intensity and mindful presence, Istanbul and New York, English and Turkish.

Majoring in Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University and holding a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, along with additional credentials from Harvard Business School, she has built an impactful career in finance and technology leadership. Her path includes key roles at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in New York and at Mastercard in Istanbul.

Through Bistrouge, the restaurant she opened in Manhattan, she encountered the city’s layered intersections—an experience that enriched her not only as an entrepreneur but as a human being.

Alongside the corporate and entrepreneurial world, she nurtured a parallel devotion to poetry, storytelling, meditation, yoga, and expressive arts—exploring how data-driven structures can soften into intuition, imagination, and breath.

She is the author of Jumping on the Drips, a collection of interwoven stories; the novel Shared Pulse: Love and Transformation in a City of Crossings; and the poetry collection, Mismatched Socks, published in English and Turkish as Varla Yok Arasından Şiirler: Sessiz Senfoni.

She is also the mother of a daughter finding her own way in the world—a parallel journey that keeps teaching Eda about love, wonder, courage, and the quiet art of becoming.

Eda’s curiosity lives where algorithms meet emotion, where imperfection becomes possibility, and where the smallest moments crack the heart open again. Through her creative workshops and somatic practices, she accompanies others in their own cycles of remembering—using story telling as a compass, mirror, and gentle invitation.

Her work continues to explore transformation in liminal spaces—between worlds, between breaths—seeking the shared pulse beneath it all.