Bonnie Bluewater writes fiction about the patterns families hand down and the women who finally put them down.

These are short stories rooted in the unglamorous work of noticing what you inherited: the roles you were assigned, the silences you were trained into, the coping habits that were never really yours to begin with. This is what it looks like to hold everything together while falling apart inside and what happens after.

If you have ever been the one in your family who seen the pattern first, who started asking questions nobody else wanted to ask then, these stories were written for you.