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Two collections from Kismet Chaos Publishing — each its own world, both written toward the same question: what remains of us after life has changed everything we thought we knew.

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All in on Empty

A raw poetry collection about grief, exhaustion, displacement, and rebuilding a life while you are still running on empty.

All in on Empty is a raw contemporary poetry collection about reinvention, grief, anxiety, casino life, and the brutal quiet of starting over.

After moving more than 1,300 miles from everything familiar, Natalie Halloway found herself rebuilding beneath desert skies and casino lights — writing through heartbreak, displacement, exhaustion, and the slow work of becoming someone new.

These poems are not polished reflections written safely from the other side. They are pieces written in the middle of the storm: on sleepless nights, after long shifts, under red desert sunsets, and in the moments when survival had to become a language of its own.

$16.99 · Paperback & ebook · 126 pages

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Front cover of What Remembers My Name: a woman’s profile turned upward, dissolving into a violet nebula beneath a gold crescent moon
New Collection · Forthcoming

What Remembers My Name

The Cosmos Never Forgot What You Were. Neither Should You.

What Remembers My Name is a celestial contemporary poetry collection about identity, self-discovery, desire, anger, love, and the strange freedom of deciding who you will become after the turmoil has passed.

Set in the emotional in-between, the collection turns toward stars, stories, imagined worlds, memory, and solitude in search of perspective. It explores what happens when the fire has gone out and there is finally enough quiet to look at your life as a whole: what remains, what no longer belongs to you, and what you actually need when no one else is deciding for you.

Through an intimate and emotionally unguarded voice, the poems move through desire and devotion, heartbreak and acceptance, restless anger, and the realization that some versions of ourselves are meant to be remembered rather than rebuilt.

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