We spend our lives running—chasing, striving, proving, providing. We push through exhaustion, navigate love and loss, search for moments that make the race worth running. Soft Place in Life's Race is a collection of 88 poems and prose from 88 authors worldwide about those moments—the pauses between striving and surrendering, the unexpected tenderness found in ordinary days, the humour and heartbreak woven into simply being alive.

These are poems and short stories for anyone who has ever felt the ground shift beneath them. For anyone who has loved deeply and been hurt quietly. For anyone who has laughed when they probably should have cried, and cried when they least expected to.

Honest, warm, and unflinching, Soft Place in Life's Race is an invitation to slow down, catch your breath, and remember that the race itself—messy and imperfect as it is—is where the living happens.