The eighteen stories found within are mental and emotional excavations of fractured traumas, the awakening of unique pleasures, and the moments where we come face to face with the hungry voices whispering to us from the dark. Before falling asleep every night, a man ritually unlaces the stitches keeping his chest tied closed. A pair of lovers allow their strangest thoughts to invade and infect their lovemaking. One unsuspecting child learns why so many others are afraid of things they cannot see. A family slowly unravels as the father seeks his buried name in the walls and the mother unbecomes. The death of a child leaves a living, lingering reminder behind as memorial. One woman becomes unexpectedly aroused by a new and surprising happenstance. The entrance to a strange and deserted museum suddenly appears in the side of a city building. These stories are misshapen and deformed offspring; these are lessons that continue to go unlearned.
Author
Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger is a surrealist/magical realism writer from Kansas City. He earned dual bachelor's degrees in English and Philosophy while minoring in Political Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He earned his MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco in 2011. He has been published in Agua Magazine, Alors, Et Tois?, Aphelion, Bluestem Magazine, BrainBox Magazine, Cause & Effect Magazine, Cahoodaloodaling, Crack the Spine, Eunoia Review, Five Quarterly Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, Glint Literary Journal, The Gloom Cupboard, Hamilton Stone Review, The Heartland Review, L’allures des Mots, Lunch Box, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, Offbeatpulp, Penduline Press, Phoebe, Poydras Review, The Santa Clara Review, Serving House Journal, Sheepshead Review, Slice Magazine, Up The Staircase, Fox Spirit's "Girl at the End of the World: Book 1" anthology, and has been shortlisted for the Almond Press “Broken Worlds” fiction contest He has two novels in progress ("Impasto," "Rise") and two short story collections from which numerous stories have been published ("Scaring the Stars into Submission," "The Machinery of the Heart: Love Stories") He blogs at http://triphoprisy.blogspot.com
