“Pack this book with care, and don’t forget the “delicate and flammable” tag. These stories take you through burning woods, tattoos, and arsenic, before healing you with water, love, sex, and language as lush as poetry. Ace Baker is a male version of Shahrzad, a born storyteller whose survival is guaranteed with one tale a night.” —Niloufar-Lily Soltani, author of Zulaikha
A stunning second collection of short stories from Ace Baker
Fire fascinates. Fire destroys. Fire transforms.
In these thirteen stories, ordinary people discover the flames that define them—the slow burn of desire, the sudden flare of violence, the smouldering aftermath of loss. Some fires warm us. Others consume everything we thought we knew about love, loyalty, and survival.
With unflinching honesty and surprising tenderness, Bathing in Fire explores the moments when we’re forced to choose between safety and passion, between who we were and who we might become. These are stories about the heat that shapes us, the sparks that ignite us, and the ashes we rise from.
From quiet domestic kitchens to battlefields half a world away, from first love to final revenge, each tale illuminates the human condition at its most vulnerable and its most fierce.
Some flames burn everything to ash.
Others light the way home.
[available as a digital download]
“Pack this book with care, and don’t forget the “delicate and flammable” tag. These stories take you through burning woods, tattoos, and arsenic, before healing you with water, love, sex, and language as lush as poetry. Ace Baker is a male version of Shahrzad, a born storyteller whose survival is guaranteed with one tale a night.” —Niloufar-Lily Soltani, author of Zulaikha
A stunning second collection of short stories from Ace Baker
Fire fascinates. Fire destroys. Fire transforms.
In these thirteen stories, ordinary people discover the flames that define them—the slow burn of desire, the sudden flare of violence, the smouldering aftermath of loss. Some fires warm us. Others consume everything we thought we knew about love, loyalty, and survival.
With unflinching honesty and surprising tenderness, Bathing in Fire explores the moments when we’re forced to choose between safety and passion, between who we were and who we might become. These are stories about the heat that shapes us, the sparks that ignite us, and the ashes we rise from.
From quiet domestic kitchens to battlefields half a world away, from first love to final revenge, each tale illuminates the human condition at its most vulnerable and its most fierce.
Some flames burn everything to ash.
Others light the way home.
[available as a digital download]
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