Mike Long, a.k.a. Michael Rider, a.k.a. Knight Rider—frustrated philosopher and ersatz office manager—finds himself charged with misdemeanor stalking, simple assault, and planning a terrorist attack, at the end of a very rough work week that includes late-night stakeouts of the new woman in payable, fistfights with the IT guy, pissing in the elevator, and more than one happy hour at Chili’s. This is his apology, not an expression of regret, but a justification.
Read MoreJoanna Ruocco’s The Whitmire Case, is a dark comedic work in the tradition of Samuel Becket. With musical, digressive sentences that probe the odd logic of the mystery at foot, The Whitmire Case is an investigation into a community where sheep seem more logical than people and chaos seems to grow with each attempt the characters make to gain control.
Read MoreEric E. Olson’s The Procession of Mollusks, is a psychological detective story that follows an investigator as he tries to solve the mystery surrounding the death of marine biologist. As he descends into the picturesque town of Newport Bay, things begin to get slippery for him, very slippery. As humans begin acting like mollusks and the static boundaries of the world and symbolic order begin to dissolve, the story slithers into a psychedelic world that has as much in common with the work of David Lynch as it does Paul Auster. The Procession of Mollusks is study on slippage and will not disappoint.
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