Daddy Issues - Coming July 1st
Poetry And Prose Volume III
Fathers shape us—sometimes in ways we don’t fully understand until years later, when we find ourselves standing in the wreckage of everything they left behind. Daddy Issues is a poetry and prose collection about the complicated, messy, often painful relationship between a father and daughter. It’s about the love that was given, the love that was withheld, and the quiet ache of wanting something that was never quite there. This book is for the daughters who have spent a lifetime trying to be good enough, trying to be seen, trying to be loved in a way that didn’t come with conditions.
This collection explores the contradictions of a father’s presence—the warmth that could have been, the distance that was, the confusion of being both cherished and overlooked. It’s about the way disappointment can carve itself into your bones, the way absence leaves a permanent imprint, and the way a father’s love—or lack of it—shapes every love that comes after. It’s about the desperate attempts to hold onto the best memories, even when they’re tangled in hurt, and the reluctant acceptance that some people will never be what you need them to be.
But Daddy Issues is not just about grief—it’s about reclamation. It’s about unlearning the belief that love has to be earned, that our worth is measured by someone else’s ability to show up. It’s about breaking the cycle, about becoming the kind of person who heals rather than harms, about learning that we are whole, even if the person who was supposed to love us first never did it right. It’s for the daughters who have spent years untangling themselves from the past, trying to rewrite the narrative, trying to find softness where there was once only sharp edges.
This book is for the ones who flinch at Father’s Day commercials, who still feel like a child when they hear their father’s voice, who carry their younger selves inside them like ghosts. It’s for the ones who have made peace, and the ones who never will. It’s for the ones who have found father figures in unexpected places, and the ones who have decided they don’t need one at all.
Daddy Issues is not a love letter, and it’s not an apology. It is a reckoning. It is an excavation of wounds and the stubborn hope that healing is possible. It is for every daughter who has ever stood in front of a locked door, waiting for it to open.
