On the blurriness of boyhood.

Bretty’s work revolves around boyhood, shadow, and dream. The blurriness of childhood, the double edges of growing up, and the folly of masculinity. Bretty is currently at work on a fiction duology, Shadow Boys, which follows the journey of a shadow boy through a lightless world in search of their sunshine boy; a children’s book, The Boy Who Cried Well, following a boy who is tasked with keeping his town’s water well filled, and the only way to do that is with tears; and, a prose poetry project, [ bone map ], which you can see below. Forever chasing the little grin of my inner kid, front and center in blue and yellow below.