Praise for hush hush hush:

Reading Audra Kerr Brown is a stunning, beautifully-grotesque experience. Much like O’Connor, Kerr Brown’s writing is like gazing upon humanity through a window. She at once eviscerates us by illuminating, with subtle, quiet prose, her characters’ vulnerabilities, dysfunctions, and damned choices, and then, in turn, uplifts us with the hope she offers by presenting her characters with opportunities to overcome the consequences of their ill-fated lives. In her debut collection, hush hush hush, every story is a tight, well-constructed narrative that makes the reader’s heart race and cry and rejoice. In darkness, there is light. In fire, there is rebirth. In Audra Kerr Brown’s hush hush hush, there is brilliance. 

—Constance Malloy, creator of The Burning Hearth blog

Reading an Audra Kerr Brown story is like biting into an exquisite and exotic amuse-bouche—so much texture and flavor, each sentence serving up something fresh and different and surprising. “We needed milk, so we pawned my sister's leg,” reads the first sentence of the opening story, and just like that, that quickly, we’re pulled into a world in which a woman grieving a miscarriage falls into love with a lightbulb, where a pack of Girl Scouts find a dead baby while foraging for mushrooms and a dead brother reappears in a beloved leather jacket. Anything can happen and often does, and all of it is delicious. 

—Sarah Freligh, author of We

With an uncanny gift for creating characters we feel we have always known, Audra Kerr Brown treats us to stories about grief and love that lay bare for us real worlds of suffering and joy. The stories in hush hush hush succeed precisely where her characters' tenuous connections to the world fail. Inside these stunning little tales are pawned prosthetic legs, a frozen ghost-child mascot haunting a home for pregnant teenagers, a new family home where chairs stack themselves and walls bleed, and family terrorists of every variety. Sad, haunting, and often darkly funny, I couldn’t stop reading these disarmingly beautiful stories of how easy it is to lose what we love the most. They shimmer and glow with quirky brilliance.

—Meg Pokrass, author of Spinning to Mars and Founding Editor of Best Microfiction 

What I love about Audra Kerr Brown's stories (and this collection in particular) is how immersive her writing is. The reader is being invited into secret worlds here, secret lives. Never for a moment do you doubt the truth of these worlds. While you are reading these stories, for a moment, you are somewhere else. And sometimes it is a sad place, but always, always, it is beautiful.       

—Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You