Grocery Store Flowers:
A Book Of Grief
Once upon a time, the Moon loved the Sun...
Grocery Store Flowers is a collection of poems about a love that changed everything, and the grief that followed when it was gone.
Moving through four movements — the falling in, the reckoning, the letting go, and the slow work of healing- and how that is often not healing at all, this collection doesn't rush past the mess of loving someone deeply. It sits with the ache. It asks what it means to be loved well, to lose that love, and to find your way back to yourself on the other side.
I wrote these poems because I died. I had to; what is left of me is not the same as I was.
This book is heavy. It has no choice but to be. But it isn't meant to prolong your suffering — it's meant to help you feel it, and then set it down…until it calls you again…that is after, what grief is…Love that calls us.
Grocery Store Flowers releases November 2026 from Light Bringer Press
Doors | The Woven Thread Series
A magical library between worlds. A fire-cursed curator who has not left its walls in five years. A death god in exile. A prince who fell out of the sky. A power-hungry sorceress. And a love story that defies every lifetime.
Doors is a book about what it costs to survive something. About the friends who love you completely and still miss what you need. About the fire that lives inside you, that was never a curse. About the question I return to again and again…
When is a monster not a monster?
The answer this book offers is this: when you understand where the fire came from.
Doors is available now. It will destroy you in the best way possible.
Goodnight Sunshine, No Nightmares.
— Mackenzie Cierra. Author | Sunlight
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The Chaos Journal | For Neurodivergent Writers
A Writing Journal for Creators Navigating Mental Health
This is not a journal that asks you to be okay.
It is a journal that meets you where you are: in the chaos, in the hard days, in the space between who you were and who you are becoming.
The Chaos Journal is designed for writers and creators who live with mental health challenges and create anyway. It contains writing prompts that are short, honest, and designed for the days when everything feels like too much. No toxic positivity. No pressure to resolve. Just pages that can hold whatever you bring to them.
Because the chaos is not an obstacle to the work. Sometimes it is the work.
— Mackenzie Cierra | Author | Founder | Neurodivergent
