I’ve always wondered what it means to love “like a rock.”
Does it mean that the love itself is rock-like: round? heavy? flecked with mica? Or that you love someone the way you love a rock? Or perhaps it means to love the way a rock would love…
In any case, I love rocks like a rock. I love the words and feelings they evoke: hard, rough, worn — words that, when applied to so many other things in life, seem so difficult and undesirable. Stone somehow redeems such words, joining them with others: solid, smooth, tumbled, settled, still and even, sometimes and unexpectedly, soft…
You can read more about this series here.
“Shine” (Sea & Stone #1) 
“Tumble” (Sea & Stone #2) 
“Settled” (Sea & Stone #3) 
“Nestled” (Sea & Stone #4) 
“Etched” (Sea & Stone #5) 
“Crackle” (Sea & Stone #6) 
“Speckle” (Sea & Stone #7) 
“Glow” (Sea & Stone #8) 
“Stripe” (Sea & Stone #9) 
“Huddle” (Sea & Stone #10) 
“Fumble” (Sea & Stone #11) 
“Thread” (Sea & Stone #12) 
“Pocked” (Sea & Stone #13) 
“Curl” (Sea & Stone #14)
Juror’s Choice Award, EAF 2021
Alison Leigh Lilly 