FEEL FREE is the first fiction publication from Donnie Mathias containing 20 short stories. Here, we follow tales of a groundbreaking surgeon, the inside lives of a trio of crows, a middle school-aged seeming clairvoyant, a 30- year reunion at a nursery, a rich boy's collection of toys, a country duo's night of property damage, a night with the world's best waitress, a long

stay at an animal hospital, a county-wide best lawn competition, an experimental thrift store, the lives of a boy who steals and a woman who is stolen from, a night drive with two boys who share feelings, a neighborly feud spurred on by a man and his dog, a company that sends physical and emotional stimuli, a high school prank taken personally, a young boy who

takes offense to a local grocery store tradition, a film set miscommunication, a strange customer experience at a mall food court, an unfriendly day fishing at the lake, and a man who encounters what might be a past version of himself. Set in a recognizable present day, feelings are what tie all of these moving parts together.