Lobotomation is a meditation on the human condition. Of course, I am far from being the first, and far from being the last person to write about the topic. However, the improbability, the banality, and the brutality of life never ceases to fascinate me. In Lobotomation, I am exploring what it’s like to be alive,… Read More Lobotomation by Jenya Doudareva
“If Kerouac & Carver had a baby and Hemingway was the midwife” – Patrick Paul Henningham The characters in these stories live in rural towns and cities where alcohol and opioids are a necessary part of daily existence. Michael Lafontaine writes honestly about relationships and the struggles of everyday ordinary people. Please Don’t Argue With… Read More Please Don’t Argue With Me, Okay By Michael Lafontaine
The poems in this first collection from Michael Lafontaine were mainly written in the author’s mid twenties when he travelled extensively through the United States & Canada detailing his travels in the form of poetry and prose like his heroes Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver & Ernest Hemingway. Michael Lafontaine was educated at Macquarie… Read More Riding in the passenger seat while the driver is on crack by Michael Lafontaine
In his third short story collection, Absolute Invention, Sheldon Lee Compton returns to the realms of imagination belonging to magical realism and fabulist fiction. This collection fires up the world of creative creation he first dealt with in his collection Where Alligators Sleep. You’ll encounter a town that beautifies amputation, ghost dinosaurs, dragons that live… Read More Absolute Invention by Sheldon Lee Compton
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