Black Coffee. Life is a Story - story.one

Black Coffee is a collection of short stories narrating the chaos of life in its raw, unedited, messy form.The collection ranges from old folk tales to personal reflections and even includes a fable, allowing you to experience all, from the sad and heavy to the funny and quirky side of everyday life, only a few pages apart. Blending folklore with reflective storytelling, these stories, despite satirical undertones, still manage to tackle the serious domains of life, where loss, shame, and trauma preside.Drawn from shared memory and lightly fictionalized, they capture life as it is: sad, funny, messy, and always worth reading.

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Ruby Os was born in 1998, in a small town in Bosnia, back when kids still actively read paper books, and just before the Kindle era. She has been writing from a young age, but rarely shared her work with the rest of the world. Her practical mindset led to enrollment in medical school, from which she dropped out a year later, moved abroad, and pursued her passion, a degree in English and American Studies.Although fluent in 4 languages, Ruby writes creatively only in English. She published her first flash fiction in 2024, thanks to story.one, and this story collection is her second published work. She describes herself as a liberal Muslim feminist and is currently busy pursuing her Master's Degree in American Studies at the University of Graz as well as building her ghostwriting brand on LinkedIn.She lives in Graz with her partner and their 3 cats, Ollie, Tinky, and Jack.